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Another excellent article from our regular guest blogger, Ben Reeve-Lewis, this time on the advantages of green landlording. Energy efficiency and grants for landlords So with Grant Shapps announcing the end of HIPs and the increased importance of EPCs, it is a timely opportunity to look at landlords and the environment. Do you consider yourself…
This is another blog post from Roberta Ward of My Property Mentor. This is a roundup post listing a week of Eco related posts on her blog. Roberta has kindly allowed me to reproduce this here, as I thought it would be of interest to you. ***** We kicked off last week prior to the…
Two years ago I did a review of Roof Magazine on my Landlord Law site, where I said how good it was. I have just finished reading the January / February 2010 issue, and have decided I need to write about it again. It really is excellent, this issue in particular. For example articles I…
Founded in 1972, the Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. It has four main aims and objectives: Preventing further loss of ancient woodland Restoring and improving woodland biodiversity Expanding the area of new native woods Increasing people’s understanding and enjoyment of woods At present it is trying to raise sufficient money to…
I was fascinated to see this map indicating which areas will be flooded if the sea rises, showing the incremental increase in land loss at different levels of sea rise (obtained via a report on The Times web-site). The grey areas show the predicted flooded areas according to the flood level selected by a drop…
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The cost of poor housing – a report from Wales
Last week I did a post called poor housing = poor health. This looked at a report out which showed that poor housing conditions are believed to cost the NHS at least £600 million per year. I now learn of another new report – this one is a bit more detailed (and costs £30) . …