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- Housing
- Decent Homes and housing finance
- Housing Standards
- Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
The work done by landlords on meeting the thermal comfort criterion improves the energy efficiency of the housing stock. This contributes towards wider government goals on ending fuel poverty and climate change.
The thermal comfort criteria of the Decent Homes Standard requires dwellings to have both effective insulation and efficient heating. See Decent Homes Guidance for detailed information.
Communities and Local Government also recommends that landlords take the opportunity to go over and above the Standard when carrying out work. For instance:
- installing extra insulation
- fitting double glazing
- replacing old boilers with new condensing ones
- considering using low carbon, renewable or other innovative technologies.
Landlords can seek funding for works from energy suppliers via the EEC (Energy Efficiency Commitment) programme or in the private sector from the Warm Front programme. Both schemes are overseen by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
A wealth of further useful information on energy efficiency and fuel poverty is available on the websites listed elsewhere on this page.
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