'The dream home has become a living nightmare for many of my constituents' Dame Meg Hillier MP reacts to how residents on communal heating or heat networks are not covered by the energy price cap. politicslondon |
Oona Shah is bracing for an expensive winter in her flat - where the heating costs will not be limited by the energy cap
They are often used in apartment blocks, but also in clusters of social housing. Sometimes it is managed by a third party company, but sometimes by landlords themselves. They naturally seek to pass on the costs to the tenants as wholesale gas prices rocket up - but there is no rule on how they impose these price increases.
The hot water from this communal heating system is then distributed across each flat, but each household has its own meter that records the heat used and bills residents. Over the last couple of years, a large number of ultra-luxury developments, as well as more affordable and local authority homes, have opted to rely on it as it was seen as a government-backed - and cost-effective - solution.That is because developers who built such properties could negotiate their own, often more cost-effective, deals directly with wholesale gas suppliers.
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