Anchor’s total carbon footprint for 2022/23 was 237,482 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
That’s equivalent to 2,698,659 journeys from London to Glasgow in an average sized car. It would take 10,794,636 trees one year to absorb that much carbon.
We are committed to reaching net zero carbon by 2050 and over the coming years will set interim reduction targets alongside measuring and disclosing our emissions against the Greenhouse Gas Protocol annually. C17 – What energy efficiency actions has the housing provider undertaken in the last 12 months? In 2022, Anchor continued our work with the Greener Futures Partnership (GFP) including Abri, Home Group, Hyde and Sanctuary to work together on a bid for funding from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (“the Fund”) and to carry out retrofitting works. The GFP succeeded in securing £40.4m in funding to retrofit over 5,000 homes with Anchor securing £2.2 million towards the retrofit of 341 homes. Retrofitting works will take a ‘fabric first’ approach to increase energy efficiency for residents and bring homes up to a standard of EPC C or above. This programme, alongside our work to complete stock condition surveys and gather EPC data, will inform our medium and long-term retrofitting plans. We have invested in the establishment of a Projects and Contracts team and supported three colleagues to develop their professional retrofit qualifications with plans to support at least a further 10 colleagues next year. Over the last year, Anchor has been following a pathway towards developing an overarching Environmental Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon Strategy. This pulls together much of the work we are already doing on energy efficiency. Our ongoing energy efficiency work is part of business as usual is set out below: • Communal boiler room and boiler management system replacements at 37 locations • Communal lighting replacement at 93 locations
• Boiler replacements at 469 properties • New hot water tanks at 103 properties • Door and window replacements at 31 locations
Anchor’s Energy and Sustainability team has continued to work with the Warmfront team to identify which of our rental and homeownership properties would benefit from Cavity Wall Insulation. This scheme was fully funded by the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) through EON. Following a non-intrusive survey, 1,731 properties received cavity wall insulation in 2022-23.
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