by theEHP | Apr 26, 2011 | Housing, Housing, Research, Store
A study by Spareroom.co.uk has revealed that a third of tenants could be at risk from faulty gas fittings and appliances because landlords are failing to carry out annual gas safety checks. In the 24dash.com article it was revealed that Spareroom carried out a similar...
by theEHP | Apr 22, 2011 | Housing, Housing, Research, Store
Poor housing costs the NHS in Wales around £67m a year, according to new research published Building Research Establishment (BRE). ‘The Cost of Poor Housing in Wales’, jointly funded by Shelter Cymru and the BRE Trust, calculates the costs to the NHS of treating...
by theEHP | Apr 21, 2011 | Housing
Homelessness charity Crisis has published a new national survey that supports its fears that many of the 88,000 people affected by the Government’s latest planned cut in housing benefit could become homeless if the change goes ahead. This week the Government is...
by theEHP | Apr 21, 2011 | Housing
Recent gas explosions at developments in Cheshire and London have been linked to theft of copper piping forming part of the heating infrastructure report 24dash.com. In February, Wandsworth Council said that an investigation into an explosion at a Battersea housing...
by theEHP | Apr 21, 2011 | Housing
Police have warned that someone could have been killed in a fire started by a plug socket overloaded with equipment to grow cannabis. The blaze broke out in a flat in Vale Road, Colwick, South Nottinghamshire, at 3.50am on Wednesday 20 April. Officers discovered...
by theEHP | Apr 21, 2011 | Housing, Housing, Research, Store
Mexican American school children in California’s Salinas Valley are contaminated with seven times more flame retardants than children in Mexico and three times more than their own mothers, according to a new scientific study published by Environmental Health...
