Author: Nick Owens
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The government should fund community-led fabric retrofit with grants to help meet building decarbonisation and fuel poverty reduction targets
Nick Owens Retrofit Coordinator & a director of several community benefit societies in Sussex Leaky homes and fuel poverty abound The UK has millions of homes that leak heat – we are told it’s the worst housing stock in Europe. We additionally have millions of people in fuel poverty: the UK’s Annual Fuel Poverty statistics were published…
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In a heatwave, get your facts right
Letter to THE TIMES, 15 July Cooler homes Sir, Your leading article (“Not a Fan”, Jul 14) risks overheating your readers: you say “insulation, poor ventilation and triple-glazed windows are all designed to actively trap heat”. But triple glazing is cleverer than that: it has a lower g-value than double and single glazing, which means less light gets through (so is not…
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Some EPCs are more equal than others . .
Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) changed from 15th June 2025. Instead of recommending fiddly upgrades to heating controls. or telling householders to “get a wind turbine”, they have at last grasped a modicum of common sense and now recommend heat pumps and home batteries where these are appropriate. EPCs are still stuck in 2012 when it…