Only a handful of social landlords have drawn up official plans to retrofit their stock, a survey has discovered. Academics at the University of Salford asked 134 social landlords about their plans to improve the sustainability of their housing stock and discovered just 13 per cent had a strategic plan for making their homes more energy efficient. A quarter of those questioned will not have a retrofit strategy in place until 2012 to 2015 or later. The majority of landlords - 87 per cent - said a lack of funding for retrofit was the main reason why their projects were slow to take off. Read more on Inside Housing.
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