{"id":14610,"date":"2017-01-06T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14610"},"modified":"2017-01-06T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:56:10","slug":"scotlands-conservation-challenge-no-1-68-of-scotlands-traditionally-built-homes-have-disrepair-to-critical-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14610","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s conservation challenge No.1: 68% of Scotland\u2019s traditionally built homes have disrepair to critical elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ScottishHousingCondition2015-e1483721741847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14611\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ScottishHousingCondition2015-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scottish Housing Condition Survey 2015\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Scottish Government has issued its <a href=\"http:\/\/befs.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5ff5cbf27087a00bd9eec1b1a&amp;id=acef51efdf&amp;e=5426582448\">Scottish House Condition Survey 2015<\/a> that also found that 52% of Scotland\u2019s homes have disrepair to critical elements and 44% of all dwellings failed to meet the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS).<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest a small improvement in house conditions on the previous year. Other findings for pre-1919 homes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>average energy efficiency ratings increased slightly, although they are the least energy efficient type of property<\/li>\n<li>carbon emissions decreased from 102 kg\/m<sup>2<\/sup> of floor area to 93 kg\/m<sup>2<\/sup>, a reduction of nearly 10%<\/li>\n<li>converted flats are almost exclusively pre-1919 structures (92%), where a house has been divided into multiple residences<\/li>\n<li>detached houses built after 1919 are on average around three-quarters of the size of those built pre-1919, while semi-detached and terraced houses are on average between just over half and two-thirds of the size of their pre-1919 counterparts<\/li>\n<li>there were improvements in the depth of loft insulation, the energy efficiency profile of domestic gas and oil boilers and the SAP ratings<\/li>\n<li>substantial improvements in SHQS compliance since 2014<\/li>\n<li>the proportion of pre-1919 dwellings below the tolerable standard has declined since 2013 by nearly 5% and stood at just under 4% in 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Publications\/2016\/12\/1539\/0\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full report of findings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government has issued its Scottish House Condition Survey 2015 that also found that 52% of Scotland\u2019s homes have disrepair to critical elements and 44% of all dwellings failed to meet the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14612,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions\/14612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}