Tynwald approves changes to make the government's green living grants more accessible.
A £7m Isle of Man home energy efficiency scheme has been expanded to give property owners more choice over the improvements applied for., which Enterprise Minister Lawrie Hooper said had been "too restrictive".The scheme will reopen to new applications from December.Originally launched in 2021, the scheme was closed for a review in September, after some who tried to access the £6,000 grants found they could not always apply for the improvements they wanted.
Applicants will now be able to chose works from a separate list, and not be limited to those prescribed in the audits, which Mr Hooper said had been the "fundamental problem" with the scheme previously.When the scheme was established, the Department for Enterprise said it had the potential to lower emissions in about 1,200 properties on the island.
Calling for more to be done to increase uptake, David Ashford MHK said as only 87 grants had been approved in the 16 months since the scheme's inception, it would take 18 years to meet that goal. Mr Hooper admitted the changes would "not fix all the problems" with scheme, but other measures were being developed to deal with issues such as support for low income families, and for more expensive home improvements.
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