RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONS GROUP WANT TO END FUEL POVERTY IN FLATS

The Federation of Private Residents' Associations  has joined forces with a major coalition of anti-poverty, energy, environmental and health campaigning organisations to launch a charter of measures needed to eradicate fuel poverty. The End Fuel Poverty Coalition are calling for the UK Government and political parties to commit to making all fuel poor homes as energy efficient as a home built today.  Federation Chairman and Coalition Member Bob Smytherman, said: ‘Everybody should have a warm, dry home that they can afford to heat,  including leaseholder flat owners. Unless an improved national energy efficiency scheme is introduced to include leasehold flats, many more vulnerable pensioners, families and disabled people will be pushed into fuel poverty.' ‘Although such a scheme would require significant investment from landlords and freeholders, it would help lift millions of the poorest flat-dwellers out of fuel poverty and at the same time dramatically cut CO2 emissions, create more than 35,000 jobs, and put over £6 billion back into the economy.'