Funding success for Lancashire’s ground-breaking retrofit operation leads to ‘hard to treat’ homes focus at Retrofit Summit 

The granddaddy of collaborative local authority retrofit programmes is now turning its attention to Lancashire’s hard to treat homes after nearly nine years of delivering energy efficiency measures into over 20,000 homes. 

For Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotherham, retrofit is deeply personal.

We had a fantastic speaker programme at the South East Retrofit Summit about the exciting retrofit opportunities in the region. 

Alongside its work providing funding to businesses to decarbonise, UK Government and EU-funded grant body LoCASE continues to support the development of businesses providing services in the retrofit sector in the South East as the region gears up for a home energy efficiency push. 

An important part of LoCASE’s (Low Carbon Across the South and East) work is to provide funding for businesses “to develop or improve their ‘green’ product/service” and to transfer learning from successful pilots in retrofit an

“I know what many of you are probably thinking,” Councillor Andy Drummond, Portfolio Holder for Regulatory and Environment for West Suffolk Council, said with a wry smile during his opening remarks at our Retrofit Revisited Suffolk conference - “He’s a politician, and when politicians say they need to do something, they mean ‘you solve this’!”