Main focus
- Make it easier for people to retrofit buildings that they own or occupy.
Key phrases
- Heating and cooling.
- Insulation.
- Retrofitting.
- Conservation area.
- Listed building.
- Permitted development.
Current projects
- Help to develop the Council retrofitting strategies for privately owned or occupied buildings, by suggesting case studies and business models.
- Encourage owners to make refurbishments and extensions, as well as new buildings, match the climate action ambitions, by drawing attention to retrofit guidelines.
- Work to ensure that planning guidelines are understood and applied to meet both heritage and environment objectives, by (for example) putting forward simple statements and sensitive extensions of permitted development rights.
Islington Environmental Alliance 