Landlords are confronted with large accounts for double glazing and insulation according to the heavy energy efficiency rules of Labor – with the fear they will have to increase the rent.
The government has announced that all private rental properties at the end of the decade need an EPC rating of at least C, instead of the E that is currently required.
Ministers insisted that the proposals can save on average £ 240 per year on their energy bills and can get up to half a million households from fuel poverty.
But critics have warned that fewer than half of the properties are currently satisfying the standard, and the costs of the 'miserable' plan will inevitably be passed on to tenants'.
According to the plans, landlords will have the choice to meet the standards for energy efficiency, with options such as attic insulation, cavity wall insulation and double glazing.
Solar panels, batteries and smart meters or low carbon heating such as heat pumps can also be used.
The government proposes a maximum £ 15,000 limit above which landlords do not have to spend to meet the EPC C -Rating.
The limit can be £ 10,000 if tenants are charged lower rents whether houses are in a lower tax band of the council.
Civil servants pointed to supports for heat pumps of the boiler upgrade schedule and the warm houses.
About 48 percent of the rented property comply with the EPC C figure as it looks now.
It is estimated that the average costs for landlords of compliance with the proposals will be £ 6,100 to £ 6,800 by 2030.
Previous proposals that landlords require to meet EPC C standards for private rented houses by 2028, were added by the then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when he handled a series of green policy measures in September 2023.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said today: 'Far too long we have plagued too many tenants by sloring and poor conditions in their homes and this government takes rapid action to correct the mistakes from the past.
“Thanks to our plan for change, we are driving up the housing standards, we improve the quality of life and lowering energy bills for working people and families.”
In a round of interviews this morning, Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband told BBC Breakfast: 'I think landlords should pay at least an important part of this bill.
“We think that is honest and right to ask landlords to do that.”
New energy performance certificates are also planned, but houses that have already been assessed AC will be considered under the current system as in accordance with the falling, the government said.
Acting Shadow Energy Secretary Andrew Bowie said: 'This misled announcement will not do anything to lower the energy bills in this country.
'In addition to the warnings that Angela Rayner is nowhere in the vicinity of her goals for building home, and her bill of the tenants who lower the offer and reduce the rental prices – suggests the burdens of landlords with serious costs that inevitably on Tenants will be passed on, instead of working, instead of working on tenants, instead of working on tenants, liver cheaper and safer energy for this country. '
