Identifying heating, lighting and insulation improvements that can be made to facilities such as community centres, village halls and other shared spaces. A document to guide you through a ...

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CSE encourages communities to take local action on the climate crisis, and one way we do this is to support them in making energy efficiency changes to their local community buildings. Since 2015, we ...

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Solid walls can be insulated internally (from the inside) and externally (from the outside). Both are significant undertakings in terms of cost and disruption. This page focuses on internal solid wall ...

This page contains a referral form for health sector, social care and local authority officers and other third-party organisations in Bristol, Somerset, Dorset, Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES), ...

Recent steep increases in the cost of electricity mean that it’s more important than ever to find savings. And to do this, it helps to focus on the things that use the most, and so cost you most money ...

Lawrence Weston is a post-war housing estate of 7,000 people five miles from the centre of Bristol. Deprivation levels here are amongst the highest in the UK, especially for skills, employment, health ...

Retrofit refers to any improvement work on an existing building to improve its energy efficiency, making them easier to heat, able to retain that heat for longer, and replacing fossil fuels with ...

Solar Wizard is a solar PV assessment tool designed to help homeowners and communities evaluate the potential for solar power installations. Project duration: April 2022 ongoing The Centre for ...

If your home was built after the 1930s, the chances are that its external walls are made of two ‘skins’ with a gap of around 50mm between them. This means they are ‘cavity walls’ and the gap between ...

While any home can benefit from retrofitting, older homes usually have more problems, and older homes are the focus of this page. Common issues include damp, condensation, draughts and a lack of ...