Landlords will be banned from renting out England and
Wales’ draughtiest homes from 2018 in a bid to cut energy bills and carbon
emissions. The new regulations are expected to help around a million tenants
who are paying as much as £1,000 a year more than the average annual bill of
£1,265 because of poorly insulated homes. Campaigners hailed the move as
potentially the most significant piece of legislation in a generation aimed at
improving building stock in England and Wales, which is some of the oldest and
leakiest in Europe. Read more on the Guardian website.
Burnham backtracks on spending housing fund only on building social homes
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About 40% of £10bn from Affordable Homes Programme will now go on types of
housing such as sheltered and shared ownership
Andy Burnham has backtracked on...
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