CIEH excess cold enforcement guidance

This guide from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health is aimed at helping practitioners enforce excess cold in the private rented sector.

Cold homes have one of the most tangible and immediate impacts on people’s health and wellbeing: they exacerbate illness, contribute to NHS costs and are closely related excess winter deaths. There are around 280,000 homes in England’s private rented sector and 810,000 owner-occupied homes, that’s over a million homes with the lowest two energy efficiency bands.