16th June 2025: Workshop 1
Kentish Town Community Centre
Thank you to all those who attended our first Workshop event, where we worked in groups to explore barriers and opportunities to retrofit, depending on our specific circumstances.
The slides are here:
10th April 2025: Conservation and Retrofit, and the Camden Climate Fund
Kentish Town Library
We were delighted to be joined by planning officers Bethany Cullen and Colette Hatton, who explained in clear terms how current planning policy enables retrofit to be carried out, in conservation areas and elsewhere. The attached slides were shown:
Bethany and Colette were joined by Stephen Walters, the sustainability officer responsible for the Camden Climate Fund, who explained how the fund works to help householders obtain match funding for retrofit works (up to £15,000).
TKT thanked officers very much for attending.
25th March 2025: Event planning for 2025
Kentish Town Community Centre
We had a good discussion about what events to put on this coming year.
You can see slides here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAV0JJU31ZTy5D4jUsPsrfBND3zpWndO/view?usp=drive_link
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13th November 2024: Heat pumps and solar panels
Kentish Town Library
We were delighted to hear from Martyn Fowler, director and renewals specialist at Elite Renewables, who answered many questions about heat pumps.
You can see a video of the event here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-lQaXDdRrz_qV_ZMCCibKvo3AN0Wl4c-/view?usp=sharing
We also heard from RKT’s Mat Shreeve about his experience with solar voltaic panels. See the slide presentation here.
17th October 2024: Insulation
Kentish Town Library
Natalie Black, of Enbee Architecture + Design, talked about the advantages of using natural insulation materials.
The talk focussed on how to save money, keep warm and reduce carbon emissions, and showed step-by-step photos on how to insulate with wood fibre.
See link to Natalie’s Instagram account with video clips.
The presentation slides are here.
16th July 2024: Retrofit plans
Kentish Town Community Centre
We discussed RETROFIT PLANS, including what they are, how to appoint a ‘retrofit assessor’ and how to move forward with a Whole House Retrofit Plan. We were pleased to be joined by:
Ian Preston of ECOfurb, see Ian’s slides here.
and Melissa Merryweather of Hearth, see Melissa’s slides here.
Please see the link to the RKT presentation slides here.
We discussed some of the difficulties that can arise and what to do if you can’t afford to carry out all the works. We will be returning to these issues in the future.
18th June 2024: Retrofitting flats
Kentish Town Community Centre
Please see the link to the presentation slides here.
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23rd April 2024: Financing retrofit for homeowners
Please see the link to the presentation slides here.
We have set up a WhatsApp Chat to share knowledge, and the QR code for signing up is at the end of the slides (otherwise please email your telephone number to us and we can add you).
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27th November 2023: Introduction to Retrofit
DEEP RETROFIT:
Bob Prewett of Prewett Bizley architects gave an excellent introduction to the main concepts that underpin retrofitting of individual homes, using examples typical of the housing stock in Kentish Town. His slide presentation can be accessed here.
GETTING STARTED ON YOUR RETROFIT JOURNEY:
Ben Owen of Ecofurb explained the roles of the Retrofit Assessor and Retrofit Co-ordinator, and how they prepare ‘whole-house’ retrofit plans for people who want to retrofit their homes. His slide presentation can be accessed here.
RETROFIT GRANTS AND SUPPORT IN CAMDEN:
Maggie Tapa of Camden Council gave details of a range of grants that are available for retrofit in Camden. Her slide presentation can be accessed here.
ENERGY SAVING IN THE HOME:
Mike Jenn of Retrofit Kentish Town gave details of a number of practical things that can be done at low cost to save energy and CO2e emissions. His slide presentation can be accessed here.
Q&A:
Questions asked included:
- Where can you put air source heat pumps, and can you keep existing radiators?
- How can you retrofit if you live in a house that has been split up into flats, or block of flats?
- Can you retrofit one flat on its own?
- Why do you need to consider ventilation issues?
- Ballpark costs?
- Do planning restrictions make it difficult?
We hope to cover these and other issues in future events. If there is any topic you would like to be covered, please email us.
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