Belper Open Eco Homes Week

11 - 19 Oct 2025

This week is your opportunity to visit homes where insulation and renewables projects have been done/are under way, and talk to hosts about their experiences. no pressure, no commercial ties - just first hand experience

9 homes

Energy-saving improvements key

  • Low-cost improvements
    Low-cost improvements
  • 'Big' insulation works
    'Big' insulation works
  • Glazing
    Glazing
  • Lighting systems and electrical appliances
    Lighting systems and electrical appliances
  • High spec heating
    High spec heating
  • Renewables: heat
    Renewables: heat
  • Renewables: electricity
    Renewables: electricity
  • Water management
    Water management
  • Sustainable building materials
    Sustainable building materials
  • Lifestyle change
    Lifestyle change
  • Recommended
    Recommended

About

Working with Marches Energy Agency (MEA) and neighbouring Transition Groups, we have engaged willing hosts (8 so far) with homes in or close to Belper (from Crich to Duffield).  The hosts have carried out (or are in the process of carrying out)  out a range of insulation and renewables projects and our intention is for you to learn directly from their experience.  

The event runs across a whole week plus extra weekend.  You can use this website, provided by the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to browse information about the host sites and their improvement projects,  including their own availability and visiting arrangements. 

When you have found the homes you'd like to visit:-

  1. Please pay attention to the availability information for each home.  In most cases this will also involve scheduling visits. 
  2. In order to schedule visits and manage numbers , we need you to Email energy@transitionbelper.org to identify yourself and to make bookings, when you will be provided with detailed locations and times. We can then pass on visit schedules to the hosts.  

 

Get in touch / find out more

 email energy@transitionbelper.org for more info on enrolling for visits or for offers to host visits, or for any other comments or queries about Belper Open Eco Homes 2025 

Part of the Green Open Homes network