The UK's green home retrofit revolution must be locally-led

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Retrofitting housing is a long term, national infrastructure project with millions of clients - yet it is missing from the UK's Industrial Strategy green paper, writes Arup's Becci Taylor

The UK's social housing crisis is at breaking point - indeed, councils spent a total of £2.3bn on temporary accommodation last year. The government's commitment to build 1.5 million new homes, alongside...

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