Consultation outcome

Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 30 September 2020
• Last updated: 7 February 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

On 7 February 2025, we published a follow-on consultation with updated proposals to account for new and relevant considerations, including proposed reforms to EPCs.

This consultation includes a summary of responses to the 2020 consultation which we considered while drafting the update and will form part of consideration on policy choices.

See ‘Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes: 2025 update’

Detail of feedback received

We received 729 responses to the consultation from a wide range of stakeholders, including:

• individual landlords
• estate and lettings agents
• property managers
• tenant organisations

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Original consultation

Summary

We're seeking views on proposals around raising energy performance standards for the domestic private rented sector in England and Wales.

This consultation ran from
12:15am on 30 September 2020 to 11:45pm on 8 January 2021

Consultation description

Extension to consultation end date

In the light of COVID-19, we have extended the consultation period to 8 January 2021 to give people more time to respond.

The government has committed to upgrade as many private rented sector homes as possible to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band C by 2030, where practical, cost-effective and affordable.

This consultation sets out a suite of policy proposals towards achieving this. These proposals will bring significant benefits to landlords, tenants and our environment including:

• reducing energy bills and increased comfort for tenants and supporting delivery of our statutory fuel poverty target of EPC C by 2030
• potential property value improvements for landlords
• delivering carbon emission savings over Carbon Budgets 4 and 5, making progress towards our net zero target

We have published a consultation stage impact assessment alongside this consultation.

See the BEIS consultation privacy notice.

Please do not send responses by post to the department at the moment as we may not be able to access them.

Documents

Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes in England and Wales

PDF, 870 KB, 48 pages

Impact Assessment

PDF, 1.46 MB, 52 pages

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Published 30 September 2020
Last updated 7 February 2025 + show all updates

1. 7 February 2025

   Added outcome and details of the follow-on consultation.

2. 18 December 2020

   Consultation end date has been extended to 8 January 2021.

3. 3 November 2020

   Chart 1 in consultation document and figure 3 in impact assessment updated to include properties that the analysis suggested did not reach EPC C. Welsh version of introductory text added.

4. 30 September 2020

   First published.