The private rented sector faces potentially onerous requirements under the Green Deal, it was confirmed in Parliament this week.
CLG minister Andrew Stunnell, in answer to a question, said: “In the private rented sector, where there remain a significant proportion of properties with an F and G performance rating, the Energy Bill legislation includes a measure to enable the introduction, from 2015, of a requirement on private landlords to:
(i) agree to reasonable requests from tenants for energy efficiency improvements and
(ii) to improve the energy efficiency of all F and G rated homes.”
He added: “Any such measure would be conditional on upfront finance being available, for example through the Green Deal, to landlords for any such works, and there being no net negative cost for landlords.”
It is not clear how likely it is that the requirement would actually be implemented, nor is there as yet a definition of what ‘reasonable requests’ might be.
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Yet another minister poking his nose in. Good bad or indifferent tenants take what they like and an EPC is completely ignored in any event. A bad report makes for a cheaper let and if a landlord is expected to improve it he will want more rent. Supply and demand rules.
This is another minister who should retire along with much of our elected dictatorship government.