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Upping the Energy Efficiency of our Housing Stock…

Hey, Mark here…

The UK housing stock is broken down as follows

Victorian and Georgian - 5 million homes were built between 1870-1914, many are still lived in today including mine which was built in 1870.

The Housing Act of 1930 finally got rid of the “slums” and 350,000 houses were built per annum during the 1930’s. Most are still standing.

The Federation of Master Builders was formed in 1941 in the East End of London after it took the brunt on the bombing. It is now the biggest trade association in the industry.

Town Planning came into being around the same time, and the New Towns Act in 1946 which was ambitious but, gave rise to Stevenage, Milton Keynes and Basingstoke and more.

During the 1960’s and 70’s more homes were built than at any time in our history. Unfortunately around 25% turned into vertical slums but, 75% are still occupied today.

All of this history has provided us with around 25million homes. There’s over 1 million homes without residents and hundreds of thousands with a housing need.

As we’re building approx 200-230,000 homes per annum, there’s a shortage every year which gets bigger. Just under 5.9% of the land in the UK is built on so there is no shortage of land. If you want to prove that figure to yourself, just get up in a little plane and fly around.

Making them energy efficient would take approx £13,000 per house of the older stock of which is the majority of UK stock. The total costs of the upping the energy efficiency of our stock - well, £13,000x 25million - that’s some cost and it’s debatable that the cost of materials would outweigh the benefit in the short term. Ie. Our lifetimes.

If I give an example - the costs in money and labour and “green” principle to make a sheet of 100mm x 2400mm x 1200mm Kingspan insulation against the reduced gas usage because of it’s insulation value…the benefits will be felt long term but…takin into account that 100mm Kingspan sheet is basically foam and glue…

It’s likely that current and subsequent housing ministers will “ease” the energy ratings laws to ease the financial burden on householders and landlords. Modern homes are built energy efficiently as we have learnt from our past. However, it’s also likely that landlords will be chosen first as they are making money from their properties.

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Kind regards

Mark

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