The UK housing stock holds a strong identity and cultural significance for the British and for people across the world. Rows of Victorian terraces with coloured front doors are often seen as a quintessential part of the British aesthetic. It is a recognisable housing stock and one of the oldest in Europe with 55% of its dwellings dating from before 1960.1
As they were built at a time when the use of fossil fuels, emissions of greenhouse gases and the expectation of changes to our climate were not a concern for people across the planet, the building fabric of these houses was not originally designed to retain heat energy particularly well and ...
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