Scorecard: Support

Labour

  • Accredited free advice service for homeowners and tailored advice from Home Energy Advisers who visit properties
Provide high quality and accredited advice services for homeowners:

Free and universally available advice through telephone and internet

Tailored advice from Home Energy Advisers, who are properly accredited and visit individual homes to provide more detailed advice and recommendations for householders. The funding structure of this service is unclear.

Improve consumer understanding of Energy Performance Certificates by launching a web-based tool to breakdown the information in an EPC for consumers.

Reasonable support for consumers proposed but not clear what is meant by "universal".

Conservative

  • None

No accreditation for energy advice or householder contact and advice service mentioned.

Liberal Democrat

  • Accreditation scheme for assessors and advisors to support consumer confidence
Support for householders would be provided in the form of introducing a new accreditation scheme for energy assessors and low energy refurbishment advisors to ensure people feel confident when having such works undertaken. Also a long term commitment to raise awareness over months and years.

No advice service mentioned.

This multi-manifesto analysis explicitly does not recommend or endorse any one political housing policy over another. All the Great British Refurb campaign partners are politically neutral.

Closed February 2012

The GBR campaign ran from 2009 to 2012 and ended with the passing of the green deal legislation.

Here are our successes
kevin
quoteThe campaign was set up three years ago with the ultimate aim of making it easier for owners to eco-refurb their homes. And to a massive extent we achieved just that. The Green Deal, which is a government policy which will enables all of us to refurb our homes with no upfront costs is a game changer and we are proud to have been a catalyst and indeed on occasion cattle prod to that happening. So now when the landscape of home refurb is changing dramatically, it is time for us to take a back seat too and let the politicking end and the real world Great British Refurb commence. signature