Creating a new decent homes standard that includes energy efficiency may jeopardise the number of new social homes that are built, a minister has warned. Andrew Stunell, a junior minister at the CLG, told a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat conference that he had commissioned research about the effect of a ‘decent homes plus’ standard on landlords’ capacity to build new homes. He said: ‘A decent home is not about having a kitchen and a bathroom: it’s about having a bill that you can pay. If we do decide that any future route for decent homes will be different to the route that we have got now, it will be about improving the performance of houses.’ But Mr Stunell also said he was concerned that it ‘might not be politically acceptable’ to demand that housing providers spend more money on their existing stock than on building more homes. Read more on Inside Housing.
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