Partnership pilot projects and case studies

Westminster has several key stock-owning stakeholders that the Retrofit Taskforce will engage with to ensure outputs are useful. By developing partnerships, the taskforce will be in a strong position to gather exemplar projects and set high standards of quality retrofit for other stockowners to target. These pilot projects will demonstrate proof of concepts and enable clearer understanding of carbon reduction impacts.

The intention is for lessons from partnership pilot projects to be shared and learnings trickled down to smaller stakeholders.

Objectives

Pilot retrofit delivery mechanisms for:

listed and heritage housing stock and council owned
listed and unlisted commercial property with private sector stakeholders
key Westminster archetypes, the mansion block, private home-ownership

Test all facets of retrofit challenges in Westminster including:

retrofit measures
permissions and consents processes
procurement challenges
skills viability

Constantly review and feedback learnings from live pilot projects into other workstreams. Special consideration will be given to closing the skills gap through working with training organisations.

To further partnership pilot projects and case studies the Retrofit Taskforce will:

promote partnership projects within existing estates forums and green initiatives such as The Sustainable City Charter to drive interest.
work with partners to identify potential sites, lining them up ahead of time and allowing the taskforce to use these ‘live’ pilot projects to inform other workstreams.
set some key Partnership Pilot Projects in motion over the next 12 months, which will easily replicable, for example using common archetypes.
engage with partners to gather insights, help tailor workstream outputs, set examples for other stockowners to enable faster high-quality retrofit.
explore training opportunities on pilot projects, instigate discussions about existing training and where knowledge gaps are to identify new training, especially in heritage retrofit training.

Work to date

The Retrofit Taskforce has:

overseen a soft engagement campaign with key stockowners.
identified potential archetypes for inclusion in the partnership pilot scheme
reviewed criteria for potential pilot schemes which is developing from archetype and planning policy workstreams.