Risk Title and Description

Risks to tenants and leaseholders health, wellbeing and operationally  from increased exposure to extreme weather in homes and corporate buildings.

Service: Net Zero & Business

Date identified: 6 February 2023

Owner: Net Zero Project Manager

Target implementation date: 2030

Potential Causes:

• Building regulations, strategies and planning reforms regressing, resulting in standards that Council homes are currently built at to fall backwards
• Lack of funding resulting in inability to retrofit existing Council homes and corporate buildings

Potential Impacts:

• Detrimental to tenants' physical and mental health and wellbeing and operational use of leased buildings
• Tenants moving out of leased buildings

 

Existing Mitigations & Control

What has been done to control the risk?

• All new Council housing built to Passivhaus standards, a highly energy efficient future-proofed standard that assesses future overheating
• Retrofit programme underway to build resilience in existing homes and leased corporate property

 

Further Mitigations & Controls to be put into place

• Continue to monitor and seek funding opportunities for retrofit to remaining housing stock and corporate property estate
• Continue to use City Council news and social media communication platforms to notify and advise of upcoming adverse weather forecasts

 

Notes

Extensive retrofit programme as part of a ‘fabric first’ strategy - detailed in the Carbon Reduction Plan.

 

Risk scores

Inherent risk

Risk	Score
Likelihood	3
Impact	2
Risk score	6

 

Residual risk

Risk	Score
Likelihood	2
Impact	2
Risk score	4

 

Risk scores explained.