Home Horizon: how we use information about homes
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Quantum Risk Solutions Ltd (QRS), 142 Thornes Lane, Wakefield WF2 7RE, runs Home Horizon, a research project funded by the UK Space Agency under its Commercial Climate Services Call 4.
What we use
Published open data about homes in the Wakefield local authority district: Ordnance Survey's open list of property reference numbers (UPRNs) and their locations, and the public register of energy performance certificates (EPCs), including property type, floor level, size, age and tenure as recorded on the certificate. We combine this with satellite earth observation data, and Environment Agency height data.
Why
To test a way of ranking homes by how exposed they are to summer heat compared with each other, so that social landlords can focus checks and investment where they matter most. The ranking is not a temperature reading or a hazard assessment, and we make no decisions about any household.
Whose homes
Homes whose most recent EPC with a recorded tenure lists them as social rented. To find them, we read the register for the whole district. We hold no names or contact details. We use addresses only to match records, and they never appear in our results.
Our lawful basis
Our legitimate interests in developing this service, which also serves the public interest in finding homes at risk of overheating.
Who sees it
Only the QRS project team. If a landlord shares a list of its own homes with us under a written agreement, we give that landlord the results for those homes only. We never publish information about individual homes, and we never name landlords. Anything we publish combines many homes.
How long
Until the end of February 2027, when we delete the home-level results unless we update this notice.
Where
In the UK.
Your rights
You can object, and we will remove your home from our work. You can ask what we hold about your home, and ask us to correct it, delete it or limit how we use it. To help us find your home, please give us its address. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. Contact us at [email protected].