Throughout 2025/26, Gentoo plans to invest £44m in home improvement works, including new heating systems, bathrooms, kitchens, electrics and roofs. The aim is to get the properties up to an EPC C energy rating by 2030.
Selected suppliers include, 0800 Repair, PHS Home Solutions, Bell Group, Esh Construction, Re:Gen Group, Anglian Windows and Isoler.
Energy efficiency improvement works will be carried out on more than 1,300 homes, with loft insulation, cavity wall insulation, low energy lighting, solar panels, air source heat pumps, heating controls and work to improve ventilation and draught proofing. This will be part funded by the Warm Homes Social Housing Fund.
Peter Akers, director of asset and sustainability at Gentoo said: “I’m delighted to be able to announce Gentoo’s 2025/26 investment plan. It’s extremely important that we continually invest in our customers’ homes, to ensure our customers are living in warm, safe and decent homes.
“We are committed to improving and modernising more than 4,000 homes across 2025/26, focusing greatly on improving the energy efficiency of our customers’ homes. We’re looking forward to working in partnership with our contracting partners to deliver the work and offer a brilliant service to our customers.”
The announcement follows the launch of Gentoo’s Gentogether partnership last month, which over the next 10 years is expected to deliver £170m of internal modernisation works to improve thousands of homes, in partnership with PHS Home Solutions, Re:Gen North East and Esh Construction. [See previous report here.]
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