Today sees the first step of a long-term government drive to improve energy efficiency in the private rental sector through the MEES programme - Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards.
Ultimately this will make it unlawful from April 2018 to let homes in England and Wales which do not achieve a minimum Energy Performance Certificate rating of ‘E’.
From today all private sector residential tenants have the right to request energy efficiency improvements to their properties. This applies to longer-term assured and regulated tenancies. Providing no upfront costs are required, any landlord who declines to improve the energy efficiency could be deemed ‘unreasonable.’
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We provide EPCs to Landlords on a national basis. Currently, the proportion of EPCs that are F &G rated accounts for less than 10% of all EPCs we produce. This "soft" introduction of the legislation will give Landlords time to prepare for the punitive measures in 2018 when F & G rated properties will be banned from the rental market.
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