EPC, retrofit assessment and coordination in Coventry, from a local team

Your local EPC assessors and retrofit professionals in Coventry

If you are selling or letting a property in Coventry, an Energy Performance Certificate has to be ordered before it is marketed. We are a Coventry business, so the city is where we do most of our work and where we can usually reach you soonest.

Every certificate starts with a visit. We measure the property, photograph the evidence, lodge the EPC on the government register and send you the digital copy. If the rating is lower than you hoped, we tell you why and what would change it. If you are planning improvements, the same visit can become a retrofit assessment.

Coventry's homes, and what they mean for an EPC

Coventry's housing is younger than that of most English cities. Much of the centre was rebuilt after the bombing of November 1940, and the suburbs grew quickly either side of the war as the motor industry drew people in. Each generation of house raises its own questions on an EPC.

• Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Earlsdon, Chapelfields, Stoke, Foleshill and Hillfields. Solid brick walls with no cavity pull a rating down unless they have been insulated, so evidence of internal or external insulation matters a great deal.
• Interwar semis in Coundon, Cheylesmore, Radford, Wyken and Stivichall. Most have cavity walls. Whether the cavity has been filled, and whether anyone can prove it, is often the biggest single factor in the result.
• Post-war estates in Tile Hill, Canley, Willenhall, Bell Green and Wood End, including non-traditional and system-built houses such as no-fines concrete. These have to be identified correctly, and many have had external wall insulation fitted under past schemes.
• Student houses and flats around Coventry University and out towards the University of Warwick. Often HMOs, often with rooms in the roof and a mix of heating that needs careful recording.
• Modern flats and new estates, from city centre apartment blocks to developments on the edge of the city, where the heating system and the details of the block matter most.

Coventry landlords and HMOs

Coventry has two universities and a large private rented sector, and the council licenses shared houses across the whole city.

• Additional HMO licensing covers all of Coventry. First introduced in May 2020, the scheme has been renewed, and the current designation took effect on 4 May 2025 and runs to 2030. It brings smaller shared houses into licensing alongside those covered by the national mandatory scheme.
• A minimum EPC rating of E is listed as a legal requirement in the council's HMO licensing policy.
• Selective licensing has not been introduced. The council consulted on it in 2019 and decided not to proceed at that time.
• Enforcement sits with Coventry City Council. It enforces the minimum energy efficiency standard for rented homes, and its Trading Standards team deals with commercial premises.

Every privately rented home in Coventry will need to reach the equivalent of band C by 1 October 2030. Our landlord guide explains the rules, the £10,000 cap and the 2029 transitional date.

Retrofit, grants and renewables in Coventry

The housing that makes Coventry's EPCs interesting also gives the city a great deal of retrofit to do: solid-walled terraces, interwar semis with unfilled cavities and post-war system-built estates.

• Funded schemes. Coventry is one of the seven councils in the West Midlands Combined Authority's retrofit pilot, which brings the Warm Homes: Local Grant and the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund together from April 2025 to March 2028. The city council's Local Grant work with E.ON and Act on Energy has focused on Hillfields, Upper Stoke and Lower Stoke.
• What those schemes require. Every home needs a PAS 2035 retrofit assessment before measures are designed, a Retrofit Coordinator through the work and a TrustMark lodgement at the end. Retrofit assessment and coordination, lodgement included, are the services we provide to housing providers, local authorities and installers.
• Heat pumps and solar. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme gives £7,500 towards a heat pump, claimed through an MCS certified installer. Before you ask for quotes, an assessment shows how well the home holds heat and what is worth doing first.

Our guides to grants and schemes, heat pumps and solar panels go into the detail. Local schemes open and close as funding is allocated, so check the council's own page before relying on any of this.

Sources: Coventry City Council property licensing, HMO licensing policy and Warm Homes pages; Coventry City Council Trading Standards; West Midlands Combined Authority; GOV.UK. Reviewed October 2026. General guidance, not legal advice.