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A damp social home with a solar panel is still a damp home

By Rory Evans, regional director, LHC Midlands and South East 

A solar panel can cut a bill. But what it can’t do is dry a wall, repair a roof or make a damp home healthy.

That is the tension social landlords face as they respond to the latest Government announcement on the

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How to best deliver the Warm Homes Plan – that’s the £15 billion question

Rory Evans

By Rory Evans, regional director, LHC Midlands and South East

The Warm Homes Plan is not short on ambition. Running to well over a hundred pages, it sets out the government’s intention to deliver the largest programme of home energy upgrades the UK has ever seen.

The headline commitments

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Cutting social value would be a false economy for housing

By Graham Collie, director of product innovation, LHC Procurement Group (LHCPG)

Graham Collie

Dropping social value from public sector procurement may sound like a simple way to cut costs, but in housing it would come with a heavy price.

Remember, with social housing decisions do not just affect budgets; they shape

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