More Suffolk households can access free home improvements to make them warmer, healthier and cheaper to run, thanks to Warm Homes Suffolk.
Residents and landlords of eligible properties can apply for energy efficient measures such as insulation, solar panels or heat pumps.
Average funding of £18,000 is available for homeowners, and £12,000 for landlords and their tenants.
Warm Homes Suffolk is administered by Suffolk County Council, and delivered by East Suffolk Council, on behalf of all councils in Suffolk. It has been funding home energy efficiency improvements for two years, with funding from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
To be eligible, both of these conditions must be met:
And then either of the following conditions:
Once these conditions have been approved, an assessment of your home will identify which measures are best suited to your property. These will then be installed by trusted contactors, for free.
Healthwatch Suffolk is working with Suffolk’s Public Health and Communities team to explore people’s experiences living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
The project will help to improve understanding of how people feel about their ability to manage their COPD in Suffolk and how it affects their daily lives. It will support health and other decision-makers to prioritise areas for improvement in COPD support and plan better local care, especially in winter when people are at a higher risk of hospital admission.
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It is important that any issue that is deemed to be dangerous to either private property, the highway or any of its users is telephoned through on 0345 606 6171 so that they can be immediately assessed and action taken quickly.
Any report logged via our reporting tool will generate a site visit from one of our Highways Assessment Officers. Although they do triage incoming reports, anything logged with them out of hours will not be picked up until the next working day – which as you will appreciate will lead to a delay in attendance. The Councillor Highways Support email address is also not monitored outside of office hours and should not be used for anything that is considered an emergency.
Could I also please ask that you encourage residents to supply any photographs they may have – particularly in cases of drainage or flooding problems – as in many cases, the flood water will have subsided by the time our Teams attend.
Please let me assure you that all reports are assessed and the sites visited – but it is vital that they are logged in the correct way so that we can respond in a timely manner – and so that these are assigned to the most appropriate team within Suffolk Highways:
Anglian Water has begun work to install the almost seven kilometres of new pipe between Hundon and Great Wratting. Please click here for more information.
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West Suffolk Council is required to complete a full review of all polling districts and polling places in its area every five years. The next compulsory review must be completed between 1 October 2023 and 31 January 2025.
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