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Who's paying for all this eco work?

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BeLoftyTurtle · 14/09/2024 19:09

I live in Leicester and heaps of houses are having eco work done, expensive wall insulation and solar panels etc.

You need to be on benefits to receive funding.

I know one local one got solar panels after age extended her house upwards by one level. Massive in investment! She said shes in receipt of UC so can get it.

I don't understand where tens of thousands of pounds to reduce carbon from private homes is coming from and how all the houses which are £350k+ in value are eligible for benefits?

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Jochef · 14/09/2024 19:28

BeLoftyTurtle · 14/09/2024 19:09

I live in Leicester and heaps of houses are having eco work done, expensive wall insulation and solar panels etc.

You need to be on benefits to receive funding.

I know one local one got solar panels after age extended her house upwards by one level. Massive in investment! She said shes in receipt of UC so can get it.

I don't understand where tens of thousands of pounds to reduce carbon from private homes is coming from and how all the houses which are £350k+ in value are eligible for benefits?

Or if you have certain health conditions that are exacerbated by cold. These require a sign off by the GP.
if it will cheer you up a lot of the companies have had their funding capped and stopped by the new labour government.

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BeLoftyTurtle · 14/09/2024 19:28

Mooneywoo · 14/09/2024 19:25

As a side note, I just assume anyone having external insulation put on a period property is a moron.
It’s largely ineffective and is going to cause a huge damp crisis in a decade.

Another two neighbours have gone it done, one was 15 years ago and she said her house has been fine. Not sure how it's ineffective,,,?

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Letsnotargue · 14/09/2024 19:27

A lot of energy saving funding comes from energy companies through the Energy Company Obligation. They have to pay into a fund that local councils use to help people pay for energy saving and therefore money saving things.

We are on no benefits but we’ve had loft and cavity wall insulation paid for through the council. They have targets to meet in terms of spending so they are often desperate to get people to take them up on it.

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BeLoftyTurtle · 14/09/2024 19:27

Mooneywoo · 14/09/2024 19:23

I think if 1 in 2 cars were taken of the road that would be much better for my house than next doors gas boiler, but what do I know...

Do you understand the point of green energy and better insulated houses? The two are entirely separate points and you seem to be conflating the two.
Either way it’s not something that’s supposed to have an effect, positive or negative, on you as a neighbour.

I go out and breathe car fumes every day. Disgusting. Live next to a main road. It's horrible, caused the death of a that kid a while ago

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BeLoftyTurtle · 14/09/2024 19:26

Puzzlemad · 14/09/2024 19:21

How do you know all this? Equally to extend a bungalow upwards from savings would take you over the UC savings threshold so no, she wouldn't have had this work done and paid for it herself and claimed at the same time without a lot of fraud going on.

She told me.

So she was saying she got the panels done via eco and telling us all about the scheme. She also said she could have got the wall insulation done... Which I assume she's been claiming benefits as well as building - because it's not like she's depleted her funds.

She's mistaken as she would have been able to get wall insulation, it's only fitted retrospectively and she wouldnt be able to get planning without correct insulation.

Panels obviously on after the house was built upwards

Obviously her own business and I'm only go by what she says.

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Mooneywoo · 14/09/2024 19:25

As a side note, I just assume anyone having external insulation put on a period property is a moron.
It’s largely ineffective and is going to cause a huge damp crisis in a decade.

Catza · 14/09/2024 19:24

So, instead, you propose a reduction in 50% of personal vehicles? How would that work then? How much would it cost in compensation and public transport investment? I'll take your quick napkin calculations

Mooneywoo · 14/09/2024 19:23

I think if 1 in 2 cars were taken of the road that would be much better for my house than next doors gas boiler, but what do I know...

Do you understand the point of green energy and better insulated houses? The two are entirely separate points and you seem to be conflating the two.
Either way it’s not something that’s supposed to have an effect, positive or negative, on you as a neighbour.

Puzzlemad · 14/09/2024 19:21

How do you know all this? Equally to extend a bungalow upwards from savings would take you over the UC savings threshold so no, she wouldn't have had this work done and paid for it herself and claimed at the same time without a lot of fraud going on.

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BeLoftyTurtle · 14/09/2024 19:19

Sorry I didn't proof read (I was having a convo with inlaws).

Basically a neighbour has added a level to her bungalow, which would cost a lot of money. She's saved for the works and she's also in receipt of UC which is why she's recently got solar panels.

I think if 1 in 2 cars were taken of the road that would be much better for my house than next doors gas boiler, but what do I know...

Anyway just annoyed as parents can't get funding and neither can I
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