LANDLORD & TENANT - ENERGY EFFICIENCY

The government is proposing to implement legislation to prevent landlords from letting out properties where the Energy Efficiency level falls within bands E or F. It is proposed that Rental properties that fall within these bands would have to be refurbished or taken off the market by 2018.

Further, it is proposed that as from 2016 landlords will not be able to refuse any reasonable request from their tenant to make energy efficiency improvements.

Fines would have to be paid by landlords who rent out property which fell within bands E & F if they did not comply and refurbish their draughty energy-inefficient property by 2018.

Councils will likely be pressed to use any new legislation and existing legislation more actively to compel a landlord to carry out the work or the council are likely to carry out the work themselves and charge the landlord.

B & Q have said they will sell home-energy packages to the public like loft installation.

If your tenant is receiving benefits cavity wall installation is available free of charge in some Council boroughs as is draft-proofing of doors and windows and some Councils even pay for central heating boilers to be updated.

This guide is intended as general information only, it does not seek to summarise the relevant legislation which is a complex and technical area of law. 17.7.11.

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