FOI Request - Decarbonisation and Fire Safety Costs for Housing Stock
Request 101003604107
1. Your estimate of the total cost of decarbonising your housing stock to meet net zero targets.
2. What, if any, is the annual spending schedule you have for decarbonising your housing stock to meet net zero targets. Please advise the amount you have budgeted to spend on this for each year.
3. Any breakdown you have of the estimated cost of different items - including for installing heat pumps and double glazing - of your programme for decarbonising your housing stock.
4. Your total estimate of the cost of fire safety remediation costs for your housing stock required by the Building Safety Act 2022 after the Grenfell Tower fire.
5. What, if any, is your annual spending schedule on this fire safety remediation for your housing stock. Please advise the amount you have budgeted to spend on this for each year.
Response 05-08-2024
1. Not held. We currently do not hold a current estimate for the total stock. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
2. There is no specific annual budget moving forward, although in the Council’s Housing Investment Plan budget, approved at the Council meeting on 28 February 2024, the following details was approved on potential spend in financial years 2024/25, 25/26 and 26/27:
| Description | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | 2026/27 |
| Works to meet EESSH | £1,281,000 | £3,000,000 | £3,090,000 |
| Social Housing Net Zero Fund – programme to provide insulation and Air Source Heat Pumps | £5,631,000 | nil | nil |
| Insulation | £1,641,000 | £1,691,000 | £1,741,000 |
| Windows – programme to replace/upgrade windows | £2,417,000 | £2,490,000 | £2,565,000 |
3. Not held. Currently various programmes are progressing and some tender exercises are also progressing which will inform this. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
4. Not held. No specific spend identified. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
5. There is an annual spend for the next 3 financial years expected to be £155,000 (24/25), £160,000 (25/26) and £164,000 (26/27) for Fire Risk Assessments and associated works.