The eco-landlord
The Energy Saving Trust (EST) has long established a culture of giving out advice to homeowners who want to make a contribution to stalling climate change. EST even has a whole collection for different grants and offers available for home owners to converts their house into and eco-friendly property by installing such measures as insulation, double glazing and even solar panels.
Today EST has gone one step further in their fight to combat global warning. Following the introduction of energy efficiency certificates, whereby let properties are graded according to their energy saving abilities, the EST now want the worse energy wasting properties to be banned from renting or re-sale.
The certificates marked in groups A to G denote how efficient a property is for environmentally friendly minded tenants, however the trust now wants the government to enforce landlords to make properties energy efficient by banning the leasing of properties falling into the F to G category to tenants after 2015.
The trust believes that landlords have plenty of opportunity to convert houses and many do so willingly, however as a spokesman explained some need legal and mandatory persuasion to help cut down the serious and immediate threat of green house emissions.
Over 27 percent of carbon emissions is released by the residential sector in Britain and by encouraging landlords, in the ever-growing let property market, to adopt green attitudes the government have a more favourable chance of cutting emissions.
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August 14th 2009
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