Plans to make it illegal for rental properties that do not have loft and cavity insulation to come on the market have been dismissed as blatant electioneering.
Estate Agent Today – 8th March 2010
The ban suggested by the Government could come in as early as 2015. At the same time, EPCs would have to be shown on all letting adverts.
The plans are part of the Household Energy Management Strategy published last week by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. This sets out how homes will contribute towards a reduction in carbon use over the next decade.
Other proposals include a roll-out of ‘smart’ meters in every home, and RICS valuers having to take account of the energy efficiency of properties when making their valuations.
The document makes much of the fact that private rental stock is not nearly as energy efficient as social housing stock.
However, as the document itself says, this is because 40% of private rental stock is pre-1919, whereas social rental stock is much newer. Even so, private rental properties are acknowledged as being more energy-efficient that the average owner-occupied house.
So this pathetic bunch of ex-university schoolboys and girls with no real work/business experience are at it YET again! These cretins bleat on about ‘reducing carbon emissions’ etc whilst forcing through a third runway for Heathrow – they are unbelievable.
The last time the Labour Party were in power for too long they drove landlords into removing their properties from the market because of the stupid Rent Acts which handed too much power to tenants. They seem on course to do the same thing again.
I only hope Cameron and his lack-lustre crew finally get their act together and destroy the Labour party once and for all at the next election.
Comment by Malcolm Stretten — 12/3/2010 #
I know from experience that only one leaseholder in a block of flats has to object to cavity insulation for it to be not possible to have it installed.
100% have to agree to it.
Therefore this somewhat dictatorial ban cannot be made compulsory for blocks of flats.
Comment by Pobinr — 14/3/2010 #