Making your home more energy efficient

Check for heat loss in your home

Upgrading your home can help you use less energy and use cleaner energy sources. This is called sustainable retrofitting.

  • In a typical British home around a third of heat from central heating systems is lost through the roof, walls, floor and windows.
  • If your property is poorly insulated, this means you waste around £1 in every £3 you spend on heating.

You can check how much heat your building may be losing.

Guides to improving your home

An outdoor heat pump unit mounted on the exterior wall of a brick house

Guides to improving your home

Practical advice to improve your energy efficiency, manage heat and protect your home from extreme weather
A small white house with a slate roof and Solar PV on a flat roof integrated with a green roof

Householder guide to the Greening SPD

Read our shorter, simpler guide to the Greening SPD to help upgrade your home

Conservation areas and listed buildings

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Guides for the ESSA Conservation Area

Our retrofit guides for the Edward Square Scarsdale and Abingdon (ESSA) Conservation Area
View of Phillimore gardens with sash windows and exterior window awnings, surrounded by mature garden plants and shaded by overhanging trees.

Works to listed buildings

Find out how Local Listed Building Consent Orders can simplify approval for certain works

Last updated: 26 March 2026