Energy Saving Plan Builder
Get advice on the energy saving measures that will work for your home with our new online tool Energy Saving Plan Builder. We've worked with Chichester District Council and Parity Projects to provide this free-to-use online tool for Horsham District and Chichester District residents.
The tool can help you to:
- make changes to your home to reduce the amount of energy you use
- make your home more comfortable to live in
- reduce your carbon emissions
Simply put in your postcode, choose your address and your goal and suitable energy-saving measures will be suggested for you along with average costs for the works.
The tool is a great way for residents to understand retrofit options available and likely costs.
Why we are providing this service
Both district councils have declared a Climate Emergency and this online tool is a way we can support homeowners to understand the benefits of changes that can be made to homes and the costs of making these changes that reduce energy use an carbon emissions.
In the Horsham district, over of half of carbon emissions are associated with energy used in buildings, and over 80% of the buildings in the district are homes.
Heritage (pre-1900) and atypical homes
Energy Saving Plan Builder is best suited to ‘typical’ homes built from 1900.
The tool is less suitable for homes that are atypical in the materials used, of less common construction types, conversions of agricultural buildings, or heritage buildings including those which are listed or in Conservation Area.
If you live in a heritage or atypical home we suggest you contact our Planning team, where our Pre Application planning advice service can provide a home visit to discuss your retrofitting options.
Professional advice is also available from a RICS Building Conservation Accredited Surveyor, who provide a register of providers.
Free additional information relating to energy efficiency and the retrofit of heritage homes is available from Historic England and Historic Environment Scotland:
- Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency, Historic England Advice Note 18 (HEAN 18) – Historic England
- Guide to Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings – Historic Environment Scotland
- Webinar recordings (26 webinars across various topics including dwelling retrofit and climate change) – Historic England
Your data
Horsham District Council and Chichester District Council are collaborating with Parity Projects to provide Energy Saving Plan Builder. Parity Projects provide the software platform and are part of the CoreLogic group of companies.
The online tool uses a number of sources of published data by licence, including Royal Mail and EPC databases.
There is no need to add any of your own personal data to use the tool. You are given the option to add your email address if you would like an energy saving plan to be sent to you or would like to create an account to edit the information presented on your home.
The district councils receive statistics on the number of plans produced but no personal data, such as email addresses or postal addresses used.
