15th March 2023
Talk at AGM
Following the AGM, where Leyla Boulton gave a fascinating presentation on how changes in planning guidelines could help encourage retrofitting of listed properties, here are a number of helpful links:
- a gift link which can each be opened 300 times to Leyla's FT column containing content about Pia's windows (1st floor at 100 Liverpool Road) and cheap fixes like chimney sheeps enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/ecdccf6d-8ddc-4065-8146-b2ca2d587cf0
- some extra links for draft excluding door surrounds and more elegant Victorian versions of the chimney sheep from Grate. Chimney sheeps here: www.chimneysheep.co.uk. Grate, a company that sells dampers - a smart Victorian version of chimney sheep: www.gratefireplaceaccessories.co.uk/spares/type/spare-fireplace-dampers. And for draught excluders (this is a pack for three sides of a door; not the bottom): www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk/product/exitex-perimeter-seal-single-door-kit-plain-aluminium-883784
- One pager on Chris Procter's toolkit: pdf
- A webinar organised by Chris' Architects Climate Action Network including leader of RBKC reforms Sarah Buckingham and Caroline on council concessions and overview of what happening elsewhere in UK www.youtube.com/watch?v=02RLyQsxxOc
- The National Audit Office report on why the UK's previous national retrofitting scheme flopped: www.nao.org.uk/reports/green-homes-grant
