Government’s £562m housing retrofit programme ‘simply not enough’, RIBA warns
By Joey Gardiner
2021-03-24T07:00:00
Policy to improve 50,000 homes branded ’not enough’ to tackle problem
Government plans to spend more than £500m on a green upgrade of 50,000 social homes have been described as “simply not enough” by architects, a day after MPs branded the government’s previous retrofit scheme “disastrous”.
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and housing minister Chris Pincher yesterday said the government will allocate £562m to 200 separate local authorities to spend improving the UK’s least energy efficient and fuel-poor homes.
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