Decision details

For the Director of Housing and Growth, to authorise a Statement of Intent for publication on the Haringey website. The statement of intent sets out the:-

• eligibility criteria to enable vulnerable residents to take advantage of ECO2t funding.
• household assessment process through Shine London

12.6% of the households in Haringey live in fuel poverty. Publishing a signed statement of intent with defined eligibility criteria enables households who have previously been excluded from ECO i.e the private rented sector tenants/owner occupies who are not in receipt of benefits, to access ECO2t funding to install fully fund or subsidised energy efficiency measures. Utilising the existing Shine London service to administer the scheme reduces the administration and resource requirement on Haringey.

Do nothing:
• This would disadvantage vulnerable residents in the borough.

Apply more stringent eligibility criteria:
• This would be difficult to administer.
• A review of the approach taken by other London Boroughs indicates that this would place Haringey residents at a disadvantage.

Administer and Assess households internally:-
• This would be resource intensive and does not make use of an existing service that already works with fuel poor residents in the borough.