35 - Gas boilers no more! with Richard Orr and Ross Armstrong

The Scottish Housing News Podcast

After the Scottish Government published rules for all new properties applying for a building warrant from April 2024 having to utilise zero direct emissions heating systems, we wanted to focus on what it could mean in practice.

Kieran Findlay and Jimmy Black are joined by Richard Orr, the head of asset and regeneration at River Clyde Homes, who talks about the potential impacts on the organisation and the wider sector, how River Clyde Homes sees the future direction of travel and how we pay for it?

Later Jimmy talks to Ross Armstrong, the chief executive of Warmworks, the organisation which runs the Warmer Homes Scotland programme and will lead a new seven-year programme to improve the homes of people living in fuel poverty.

Jimmy Black has written a blog to accompany the episode here: https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/blacks-blog-will-tenants-pay-for-the-scottish-governments-green-revolution

Kieran Findlay is the editor of Scottish Housing News. Jimmy Black is a former Dundee housing convener and housing justice campaigner.

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