Retrofit Coordination · Leicestershire
Leicestershire has given us our widest mix of work — rural Melton at one end of the county and the former coalfield around Coalville at the other, plus programme work with emh homes, whose own base is in the county.
It's worth being precise about Leicestershire, because a programme in Melton and a programme in North West Leicestershire are not the same job at all.
Sparse, dispersed stock in villages across the Wolds and the Vale of Belvoir. A high proportion off the gas grid, running on oil or electric heating. Ironstone and limestone construction in the older properties, which means solid wall — and a fair amount of it in conservation areas or on listed buildings, where the measure that makes technical sense and the measure that will get consent are not always the same.
Rural programmes live or die on logistics. Assessment rounds have to be planned geographically, and installer mobilisation costs more per property than an urban equivalent. Both need building into the cost plan honestly at the start.
A different proposition: denser, with substantial post-war estates around Coalville and Ashby built to consistent house types, and the same non-traditional construction question that runs through every former mining district. The upside is repeatability — get the design right for one house type and it replicates across hundreds. The risk is assuming that repeatability before anyone has actually inspected.
A county-wide programme that treats both halves identically will over-spend in the east and under-specify in the west. The assessment stage is where that distinction gets made — which is why we won't cost a Leicestershire programme from a stock list alone.
Leicestershire has a lot of conservation area and listed stock, particularly around Melton and the market towns. Where external wall insulation would change the appearance of a protected elevation, the realistic options are internal insulation — with all the condensation risk that carries if the detailing is wrong — or a fabric-light approach that puts the money into roof, floor, airtightness and heating instead.
We'd rather have that conversation at design stage with your conservation officer than discover it at planning. It usually changes the measure package, and occasionally it changes which properties should be in the programme at all.
PAS 2035 retrofit coordination at £549 per property, portfolio EPCs at £75, and air permeability testing at £175 per test — across the whole county.
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Send us a property list and the funding stream you're targeting. We'll come back with what qualifies, what it costs to coordinate, and the order the measures should go in.