It is important for climate change mitigation and to address fuel poverty that multi-owned properties (MoPs) containing flats are refurbished with energy and carbon saving technologies (‘energy upgrades'). This article explains how the ownership and management (‘governance') arrangements of...

This paper explores the potential impact that the introduction of the UK’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme will have on a) energy use in the tenanted commercial built environment and b) the idea of the net lease

In this chapter we analyze the legal routes used to deliver Low Cost Home Ownership in England where there is some element of public subsidy involved. In order to evaluate the various products used for LCHO (right to buy, part-ownership, co-operative housing models), this chapter: a) Explains...

Two years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, it is estimated that maybe as many as 200,000 people in the UK are living in buildings with major fire safety defects. Some of these blocks are wrapped in flammable cladding, as was Grenfell Tower, but many blocks have other fire safety risks, both...

Improving the environmental performance of the built environment is a ‘super wicked’ problem, lacking a simplistic or straightforward response. This is particularly challenging where space is rented, in part because the relationships between the various owners, users and managers of the...

This paper explores the extent to which the processes involved in dispossessing a person of their home allow, or require, consideration of what is described as "the personal home story" before the decision to evict the person is made. It concludes that the present law gives little formal account...

This reports on empirical research into the processes involved in repossession of homes from owners and tenants, with a particular focus on how information about the occupier's non-financial circumstances become known to decision-makers. The research involved: interviewing elite actors,...