Generation Rent slams government for scrapping EPC targets

He's on another planet. He needs to come & speak to many of my tenants who are refused these works on the free grants, cause they don;t want their house wrecked.
Then I'll take him to see the tenant who had it done, FREE £6,000 of work who then wrecked her house & made her living room too small, so she had to buy a new settee.

`..I`ll squeem & squeem until i`m sick..`

Connor O’Shea is disconnected from reality..there are insufficient technicians now, not enough materials, too few landlords with the funds & will to do it.
C O`S.. go back to virtue signalling & bandwagon jumping..you`re good at that.

Mr O’Shea said: “One of the key reasons for the terrible state of the private rented sector when it comes to energy efficiency, damp and mould, is that there’s no incentive for landlords to bring up the level of energy efficiency in the homes.

There is even less incentive when the landlord carries out, at substantial cost, a whole raft of measures, but when the tenants still in insists on drying wet clothes on radiators, keeps windows shut 24/7, pushes furniture hard up against walls reducing airflow and breaches all of the advice provided to help reduce damp and mould where caused by condensation.

It is a two way conversation which at the moment is all one way aimed against landlords.

What a joke the whole thing is, really. My still valid epic from 2015 states it is C (just!) but on the recommendations to get to level B include fitting solar panels at a cost of 5-8k to 'save' around 100 in annual bills. so that is between 50-80 years to pay for it self and people wonder rents are going up!!

We are supposed to be transitioning to green energy. Surely, this reduces the need to make all homes in to sweat boxes?

Reply to the comment left by Easy rider at 12/12/2023 - 12:29
Well if that what happens rather than abandon the lunacy - how about retrofit and re engineer mankind to get around that problem.

I really, really do not know how the whole climate/green thing can be believed. Some people, a lot of people go on holiday to hotter countries yet they on the other end seem to panic about 'global warming' you would think they may like a bit of warming in the uk?

Socialists are experts at spending other peoples money.

I can think of so many "appalling" things this government has done to tennants AND landlords, scrapping EPC targets is not one of them.
Not had one tennant ask or give a toss about it.
And so many houses are impossible to get a high rating or will cost tens of thousands to get there.
Doesn't this dosy berk ever think that all regulations and generation rent bleeting for more reforms on landlords all cost money, where do they think all the money has to come from, because unfortunately I don't have a money tree in the back garden and neither dose any landlord.
Your forever moaning about huge rent increases, and limited rental supply, well guess why?
Also it's mostly tennants causing mold and damp issues via drying clothes indoors and keeping windows closed.
Time you started thinking with some common sense.

Government dropped the EPC scheme because it can't afford to upgrade its own stock, let alone anybody else's. 39% of Birmingham's 63,000 council homes are not up to the decent homes standard, and they're bankrupt. They will never get sorted, and Birmingham isn't even on the list of landlords that Gove felt he needed a chat with. Some are living on La La land.

The minute you put double glazing into a 1900s single brick walled house with no cavity which 90% of London houses are, you then have to put in air bricks to compensate for the trapped damp air, which the tenants tape over to save on heating, it just goes round and round while the government pick up the vat on all these jobs as most LLs are not vat registered.
Any how I thought we are taxed as an investment not as a business,(unless you incorporate) investments are not required to carry out works for the government. if i buy a painting /car/ shares etc they just sit there till i sell them.