Retrofit insulation to a million UK homes a year, urges new alliance

#Energy Green Building Council and WWF among groups asking for Treasury plan to tackle fuel poverty and climate change

A new coalition of 20 organisations from the construction, housing and environment sectors has called on the government to make it a national priority to retrofit a million badly insulated homes a year by 2020.

In an open letter to Lord Deighton, commercial secretary to the Treasury, the coalition argues that by this move the government would not only cut rocketing energy bills, and so reduce fuel poverty, but also help to tackle climate change and create thousands of jobs in every constituency.

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