St Helens is a fantastic town with some amazing history to it and its outlying towns such as Newton-le-Willows, Billinge and Rainhill.

But from an domestic energy and housing stock point of view, there is a lot of work to be done.

Like a lot of older UK towns, a lot of houses in St Helens were built in the late 1800s through to the early 1930s. Further housing was lost during the Blitz and post-war housing was often built using alternative materials that make them just as cold as those Victorian and Edwardian era.

Of course, modern housing estate have continued to be built slowly, but it’s left St Helens with a patchwork of older and more traditional homes, many of which need significant retrofitting with insulation and modern heating equipment to keep them warm, energy efficient and affordable. 

Of course, that’s the other problem: While St Helen’s isn’t without it’s affluent area, many places in St Helens suffer from deprivation when compared with the rest of the UK and Europe, with several being classed as LSOAs.

That’s why St Helens ECO4 Flex is so important: it helps some brilliant people in St Helens upgrade their homes when they might not otherwise find the money to do so. 

Here are some of the common types of measures and projects that may be completed under ECO4 with the help of St Helens ECO Flex funding: