Industry expert urges government to work with industry on EPC targets for tenants' sake
In mid-July, the new Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, announced that landlords will need to raise the standard of their accommodation to an EPC standard C by 2030. Understanding the cost implications would be significant, our team got to work, calculating that it would take just over £24 billion to retrofit all PRS properties across England, Scotland and Wales to an EPC C.