We welcome the Scottish Government’s consultation on the topic of minimum energy efficiency standards in the Private Rented Sector and consider that this is a vital first step to ensure that all homes in Scotland are energy efficient, enabling tenants to be warmer in their homes and use less energy. Fuel poverty remains a significant issue in Scotland, and across the wider UK, particularly in the private rented sector. Increasing the energy efficiency of these properties is key to reducing this problem. This consultation on standards for the private rented sector represents an important step towards realising this vision.
Our response to Scottish Government’s consultation on energy efficiency and condition standards in private rented housing – a Scotland Energy Efficiency Programme Consultation
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MEES: a missed opportunity?
Our Research Director, Kelly Greer, reflects on the publication of guidance on the minimum efficiency standards for homes in the Private Rented Sector.
BEIS has finally published the guidance for landlords and local authorities on the minimum level of energy efficiency required to let domestic property under the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015. We welcome the publication of the guidance and the clear message that it sends about the benefits to landlords and tenants of improved energy performance. But we worry that it contains loopholes that will mean that action to eradicate fuel poverty and improve the energy efficiency of properties may not be taken.
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Private Rented Sector energy efficiency and the Clean Growth Strategy
Our Research Director, Kelly Greer, reflects on what the publication of the Clean Growth Strategy means for MEES in the Private Rented Sector and introduces our new project 'the Warm Arm of the Law'. We are looking for evidence and support for this work, which examines proactive and strategic enforcement of minimum standards in the PRS.
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ACE’s response to the Mayor of London’s draft Fuel Poverty Action Plan
ACE welcomes the publication of the Mayor’s draft Fuel Poverty Action Plan for London to help support the eradication of fuel poverty across the capital. We agree that fuel poverty remains at unacceptable levels and that it has not received the attention that the issue deserves.
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ACE’s response to the Mayor of London’s draft London Environment Strategy
ACE welcomes the vision and principles of the Mayor of London's draft London Environment Strategy and the ambition for London to be a zero-carbon city by 2050. Our response covers a wide range of topics, including air quality, green infrastructure, climate change mitigation and energy, adapting to climate change, the transition to a low carbon economy and how the GLA can lead by example.
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Combatting ‘rogue landlords’
ACE responds to Communities and Local Government Committee Inquiry: Private Rented Sector: Combatting ‘rogue landlords’.
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ACE’s response to the Mayor of London’s draft London Housing Strategy
ACE welcomes the vision and principles of the draft London Housing Strategy. Our response sets out how improving the energy efficiency of London’s housing can deliver prosperity and growth, by supporting economic growth in the environmental goods and services sector, supporting London’s transition to a zero carbon city; deliver fairness by lowering energy bills and eradicating fuel poverty, and support activity to improve air quality.
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Why ACE supports the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill
This Private Member’s Bill revives a clause which exists in an old piece of legislation, requiring homes to be ‘fit for human habitation’ at the start of the tenancy and to remain so throughout. Extraordinarily, this is a not a protection currently enjoyed by any renter – social or private – in England.
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Local Story – Energising Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is tipped to be a world leader in transforming how we generate and use energy but more investment in energy efficiency and local energy is needed for the full potential to be realised, according to the ‘Energising Greater Manchester’ report released today. The report is the latest in a series of ‘local stories’ produced by the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) and was written in collaboration with the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE).
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The Warm Arm of the Law: Tackling fuel poverty in the private rented sector
The ACE Research team, working in partnership with CAG Consultants, have published the Warm Arm of the Law, an Ebico Trust funded research project looking at the extent to which the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) and Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) are being proactively implemented and enforced by local authorities across England and Wales.
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