Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 21 September 2022.
How many of London’s homes are eligible for support through the Retrofit Accelerator Homes scheme? Does the funding provided to enable retrofit of London’s leaky homes match the need?
My Retrofit Accelerator-Homes (RA-H) is a technical advice and support programme which helps social housing providers to deliver whole-house retrofits. It does not provide direct capital funding but has supported social housing providers in designing and entering into contracts to retrofit over 1,800 homes.
Programmes such as RA-H are supporting Londoners to retrofit their homes. However, for London to achieve net zero by 2030 we need a faster scale-up. Over 200,000 homes need to be retrofitted each year to meet this target.
The funding currently available to support home retrofit in London does not match the need. Meeting my Accelerated Green Pathway would require a £73bn investment in our buildings (both domestic and non-domestic) over the decade. More support for retrofit is needed from national government. The GLA is also working to support the deployment of private capital into schemes that help bodies, including social housing providers, to decarbonise.