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  • I do wonder what’s going to happen with conservation areas and listed buildings over the next 10-20 years.
    There is an awful lot or rubbish housing stock in the UK that is either going to be impossible to bring up to spec or too many hoops to go through due to planning restraints.
    These properties are going to be ridiculously expensive to heat and likely see a drop in demand/prices due to running costs unless restrictions are relaxed regarding windows and visible insulation.
    Are people really going to remove all the period details in georgian properties and internally insulate and try to reinstate them? partners flat (being sold) is in conservation area and anything on the outside is prohibited so no heat pumps/satelite dishes etc, sash windows and no fake glazing bars allowed and most of the properties in the street are listed.
    Once gas is gone the electricity bills will be stratospheric.

    New flat doesn’t even have cavity wall insulation as you need to get everyone to agree to it and do the whole building, supposedly the cavity sits outside the edge of the concrete slab and runs the whole height of the building so needs to be filled top to bottom.
    Architecturally of note so not allowed to alter the exterior so no heat pumps on external walls and how do you service one on the 8th floor without paying a fortune to access?

    I’m all for energy efficiency but i see a lot of ups and downs before we are all sitting in toasty period homes and not paying insane fuel bills.

  • They’ll have to allow sympathetic modifications to the externals. It’s a matter of time I think.

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