2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Are the homes and buildings in the council area energy efficient?

Question code
1.7
Section
Buildings & Heating
Topic
EPC ratings - whole area
Source
National Data
Question weight
Low

Criteria

Three-tier criteria
First tier criteria met if 50% or more of buildings in the area that have an EPC rating are rated C or above.

Second tier criteria met if more than 60% and then third tier criteria met if more than 90% of buildings in the area that have an EPC rating are rated C or above.

Clarifications

Environmental Performance Certificates (EPCs) show homebuyers or tenants how energy efficient the building is. The EPC contains information on potential energy costs and carbon dioxide emissions.

Not all buildings in the area have an EPC rating. We will be looking at only the ratings of the buildings that do have a rating.

Marked using the most recent data available at time of publication.
- 2025 data (taken from Jan-March 2025) provided by UK Government for England and Wales
- 2024 data (taken from Oct-Dec 2024) provided by the Scottish EPC Register for Scotland
- data provided (taken up until January 2025) by the Department of Finance for Northern Ireland

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