Homeowners and private tenants in York can apply for free energy efficiency improvements.
Successful applicants will be visited by an assessor who will recommend improvements suitable for the home. These could include insulation, low-carbon heating systems, and new radiators.
The work will be organised and carried out by the Council’s specialist contractor Sureserve Energy Service Ltd.
Any household, whether privately rented or owner-occupier, will be eligible if their home is in certain qualifying postcodes and has an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of between D and G. The pre-qualified postcodes include parts of Acomb, Clifton, New Earswick, Hull Road and Westfield wards.
Other households are eligible if their home has a low Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of between D and G and:
- they get a means-tested benefit such as Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Pension Credit, or income-based Job Seekers Allowance, or Employment and Support Allowance
or
- they have a total household income of £36,000 per year or less.
Homes can use any type of energy: gas, electricity, oil and/or solid fuel. Park homes are eligible if they are the resident’s permanent address. New or self-build homes are not eligible.
Eligible owner-occupiers will get completely free energy efficiency measures. Eligible private tenants will need to ask their landlords to agree to the measures. Landlords can have improvements to one eligible property 100% funded and, if they own other homes occupied by eligible tenants, they’ll get 50% funding for them.
These improvements will build on the 211 homes of lower-income owners already made more energy-efficient since March 2025. They have benefited from measures include loft, flat roof, external wall and cavity wall insulation, air source heat pumps, smart heating controls and solar photovoltaic panels to generate electricity.
For more information on this grant scheme, to check your eligibility – and eligible postcodes – and to apply, you can:
- visit: www.york.gov.uk/WarmHomesLocalGrant
- or email: saveenergy@york.gov.uk
- or call: 01904 555520.
