Local projects and initiatives

Solihull Council’s Healthy Homes - Partridge Scheme seeks to deliver energy upgrades to homes in the area, helping to make them warmer, more comfortable, prevent damp and mould and improve the indoor air quality. 

Solihull Council has received funding from West Midlands Combined Authority and have partnered with Act on Energy to deliver this scheme, which falls under a wider programme of work in the area called ‘Your Future Chelmsley Wood’. 

We are initially providing updated Energy Performance Certificates, for homes with an EPC rating of D-G, followed by a free home retrofit assessment and indoor air quality monitoring.

Following your personalised retrofit assessment, you could be eligible to receive fully funded home energy upgrades, including loft insulation, cavity wall insulation, solar panels or air source heat pumps.  

Healthy Homes – Partridge scheme eligibility

Only homes with an EPC rating of D-G are eligible for this scheme. You can check here your EPC rating here: www.epcregister.com. If your property does not have an EPC and you meet the rest of the criteria, it might be possible for one to be arranged free of charge. However, this is dependent on funding availability.

Eligible properties

• Partridge Close             B37 6UF, B37 6UE, B37 6UG 
• Ryeclose Croft               B37 6UB
• Heathgreen Close        B37 6UH
• Wheaten Close              B37 6UD
• Yorkminster Drive         B37 6UA nos 201, 203, 207 and 207

For those residents that do not fall within the above areas, we will keep your expression of interest on hold and if additional funding becomes available in your area, then we will let you know.

To register your interest in this scheme, or if you have any questions, please call Act on Energy on 0800 988 2881 or email at grants@actonenergy.org.uk and quote ‘Healthy Homes – Partridge Scheme’. 

Please Note: The delivery of home energy upgrades is subject to the availability of funding and the results of the retrofit assessment and property survey on your home.  

Help Solihull Council capture the vision for ‘Your Future Chelmsley Wood’

Creative activity

We would like help from young people in Chelmsley Wood to make original

artwork that show these themes. For example, you could draw, paint or write about: 

• People enjoying their parks and open spaces
• Trees and the natural environment 
• People walking or cycling Homes with solar panels

Or capture your favourite places in Chelmsley Wood

• Your favourite park 
• Your favourite place to meet friends
• Your favourite place to shop

Your art can be in the form of photographs, poetry, drawings, or pictures.

Who can take part?

Young people who live in Chelmsley Wood aged 8–18

Prizes and recognition

• Your artwork may end up on display at local events and exhibitions or even featureprominently on future communications about the Your Future Chelmsley Woodproject.
• Winners will be announced at the Summer Play Day Event at Meriden Adventure Playground (MAPA) on Wednesday 6 August.
• One winner per age category Each winner will receive £30 One4All Gift card Buy Gift Cards

Submission deadline!

• For schools: Friday 18 July 
• For community groups and individual submissions: Monday 28 July