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How to spend seven years not making bad housing much better

Alan Whitehead, MP
clock 02 May 2018 •

Following the publication of Labour's new domestic energy efficiency strategy, Alan Whitehead takes aim at the scandalous loophole that will allow landlords to keep renting the coldest and most inefficient homes

If you are a landlord and you are about to let out your property, you may know (or you should know) that as from the beginning of April of this year, you have needed an energy Performance Certificate for...

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