Thursday, 27 November 2014

Tower Block Residents Are Being Left In the Cold

Changes to the government’s support scheme for energy efficiency have seen tower block retrofit schemes shelved, leaving residents of Britain’s tower blocks in poor conditions with high energy bills. But new research shows that, in spite of the changes, there’s still a strong business case for putting tower blocks at the top rather than the bottom of the queue for energy retrofit. 400,000 homes in the UK are in tower blocks. Many are disadvantaged. Seventy one per cent of people living on or above the 5th floor are social rented sector tenants. Due to poor building fabric resident’s energy bills are often unmanageably high. Read more on the Housing Excellence website.

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