Property and Household Identification Data Sources
Introduction
This guide aims to assist local authority (LA) officers, registered provider (RP) staff members, delivery partners and other eligible parties with the delivery of retrofit projects. It describes approaches to collate data and identify potential properties that are suitable for funding. Understanding the types of different data sources will help you to identify eligible properties.
Using this guide in the initial stages of project development will support the targeting of properties and help you understand the importance of data in developing a business case.
Contents
Welcome to the Quick Guide: Property and Household Identification Data Sources
This quick guide has been prepared to support organisations developing retrofit schemes across multiple houses. Section 1 signposts users to information sources that will be useful to those working in a social housing context, section 2 will be useful to those developing schemes that make owner-occupied or private rented housing homes more energy efficient. The two different scheme types are presented separately to reflect the funding eligibility of the Warm Homes Social and Local grant schemes.
Publicly available data sourced from several different websites is listed throughout this document. The methodology of how these datasets are formulated is beyond our control and it is possible that changes are made to the boundaries, lower layer super output area (LSOA) inclusion, or calculation methods.
We have based this guidance on the requirements of the government funding at the time of issue. Amendments to policy can be instigated by the funder throughout the lifecycle of the programme. It is the prospective applicant’s responsibility to check the data from these sources still meet the guidance issued by the funder if changes are instigated during project delivery.
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