A council says it’s going to spend £70,000 of central government money to help “engage” with landlords over issues of energy efficiency.
Exeter’s Labour council has been awarded the windfall from the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, to help stop landlords letting out homes with poor energy efficiency.
Exeter is one of 59 local authorities to successfully bid for the funding to target the worst-performing homes to reduce carbon emissions and fuel poverty.
As is well known amongst landlords, since April last year they can no longer let a property with an EPC rating of F and G, unless they have a valid exemption in place. The government propose to raise this to minimum rating of C by 2028 for all private tenancies and all home by 2035.
Councillor Ruth Williams says: “We can work with local residents to raise awareness of these regulations and signpost to the available financial assistance.
“We understand that the majority of local landlords meet their legal obligations however this funding will help us enforce the standards where necessary. The project will help those living in the private rented sector live in warm and affordable homes.”
The authority says it’s using the funding to identify properties currently being let with an EPC rating below E.
A statement says: “The council is keen to engage with landlords in the first instance to offer information and support where needed. However, failure to engage and make improvements, may lead to the council taking action including a fine of up to £5,000 per breach, per property.”
The council works in partnership with Exeter Community Energy to provide free energy advice to all local residents and landlords.
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There will be a lot of landlords applying for exemptions, I have one myself on an F rated property which would cost £14k to bring up to an E , it's either that or evict the tenant who is enjoying a below market rent and is paying in full on time every month.
Given that Councils are only now 'engaging' with LLs who are illegally letting properties with an EPC below E, the rush to EPC C seems premature. Why not aim to get ALL housing up to an E and then a D? Surely that would save more emissions that the PRS meeting C - or is that not what the plan is about?
I have over 100 HMOs where I pay for the heating and the EPC bare is no relationship to the amount of energy used. As said said many times before on Landlord Today EPCs are based on faulty assumptions yet some councils are aggressively enforcing something of no value. More pointless jobs at the landlords expense .
Jim Haliburton
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