Climate Ready Leicester Warm Home Surveys

We offer an impartial personalised warm home survey to give advice on the best way to upgrade your home to reduce energy bills, lower carbon emissions, and enhance home comfort and warmth.

Here's how it works

The Warm Home Survey and advice service is for homeowners and private tenants in Leicester. You can opt to:

Come and see us at an energy advice drop-in clinic at your local library for a free desktop assessment
Book a one-to-one video call appointment in the comfort of your own home

Home visits and a report are entirely free for fuel poor households. For others, a fee of £100 for your home visit and report is charged.

In-person advice at an energy clinic

We’re running home energy advice clinics at the following libraries. You can simply drop-in, or book an appointment with us:

Beaumont Leys Library	Mondays 11am - 1pm
Aylestone Library	Tuesdays 11am - 1pm
Leicester Central Library	Wednesdays 11am - 1pm

Drop-in clinics will be coming to more libraries soon. Email us if you would like to see us in a library near you.

Or complete our online form to see if you qualify for a free home survey.

Prequalification check

We have a conversation with you to establish the type of advice you need, if there are any grant schemes we can refer you to, or if you would benefit from a free home visit.

Home visit and tailored plan

We create a step-by-step plan for you, detailing energy-saving improvements suitable for your property, and the level of energy savings you could expect to achieve if you carried out the improvements.

Guidance and resources

We provide information on local and national grant schemes that you might qualify for, or advice about how to find a suitable installer should you be able to pay for the improvements.

How to apply for a Warm Home Survey

To apply for a home visit for a Warm Home Survey, please complete our online form.

How the Warm Home Surveys project is funded

We won £194,228 of funding following a successful bid to the Government’s Local Energy Advice Demonstrator Programme (LEAD).

We are one of nine successful applicants in the Midlands to be awarded funding to run an innovative home energy advice pilot project.

The funding is from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, working with the Midlands Net Zero Hub to deliver the programme in partnership with us.

The project will run until March 2025.

Our goal is to assist 1,000 households by offering in-person advice and for at least 600 of them to install the most suitable and effective upgrades for their homes.

Contact us

Please call the energy enquiries team on 0116 454 3780 or email: WarmHomeSurveys@leicester.gov.uk for more information and to request a home visit.

We aim to respond to email enquiries within five working days.