social housing blog

Deletion of NI 187: Removal of a burden or hiding an issue?
Mark Sreeves
25-Jan-2011

While it had been signalled for some time, it was announced by the Audit Commission at the beginning of January that National Indicator 187 (the Local Authorities obligation to report on fuel poverty) had been ‘deleted’.

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Identifying EPC opportunities for social landlords
Mark Sreeves
29-Nov-2010

In this article Mark Sreeves, consultant for National Energy Services, looks at how Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data can inform improvement works in social housing.

What is the value of an Energy Performance Certificate?

There is an argument that says that EPCs in social housing don’t really benefit anyone. Potential tenants are going to make a decision about whether they accept a property based on a number of very practical reasons, for example:

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Removing Energy Efficiency Barriers for Landlords
Guest Blogger
14-Sep-2010

In a recent article, Andrew Warren, Director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy, raises a fundamental disconnect in the energy efficiency improvement process. I’ll quote him verbatim as I can’t find a simpler way to express the problem:

"Why should a landlord, who doesn’t pay the fuel bills, fund measures to reduce these fuel bills? In turn, why should a tenant pay for improvements to a property that belongs to somebody else?"

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