Oona Shah is bracing for an expensive winter in her flat - where the heating costs will not be limited by the energy cap
They are often used in apartment blocks, but also in clusters of social housing. Sometimes it is managed by a third party company, but sometimes by landlords themselves. They naturally seek to pass on the costs to the tenants as wholesale gas prices rocket up - but there is no rule on how they impose these price increases.
The hot water from this communal heating system is then distributed across each flat, but each household has its own meter that records the heat used and bills residents. Over the last couple of years, a large number of ultra-luxury developments, as well as more affordable and local authority homes, have opted to rely on it as it was seen as a government-backed - and cost-effective - solution.That is because developers who built such properties could negotiate their own, often more cost-effective, deals directly with wholesale gas suppliers.
Thankyou Meg, it was starting to feel like we were being forgotten
EOCS_Official Really needs to be solved. The best beisgovuk can say is that they expect heat networks to pass on the commercial discount to residents. No chance of that happening and even if it did we'd still be paying much more than gas customers. This was sold as green and efficient...
Thank you Meg_HillierMP - hope to see UKLabour raise this and make resolving this issue a national policy. The Conservatives have failed and now are the party of the developer-freeholder donor cartels. Not the party of “homeownership” mtpennycook justinmadders lisanandy
Thank you so much Meg_HillierMP for keeping this story in the news. Cladding scandal + uncapped heating bills due to a ‘green affordable’ heating system we had no choice in installing. “Living nightmare” is exactly what owning a flat in this country is. Jacob_Rees_Mogg
EOCS_Official And for those leaseholders who are caught in the govt’s BuildingSafetyScandal the situation is utterly untenable. Huge increase in insurance premiums, living in unsafe buildings. Huge unaffordable bills. All we did was buy ourselves a home. We thought was safe. 10DowningStreet
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