'This could have been avoided': 1.3 million energy-insecure UK homes built since 2015

Michael Holder
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Since the Zero Carbon Homes Standard was ditched in 2015, more than a million UK homes have been built with fossil gas heating and insufficient insulation levels, ECIU claims

Over a million energy-insecure UK homes have been built in the decade since the previous government controversially decided to ditch energy efficiency rules that would have enabled new homes to avoid expensive...

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