Mouldy homes in the UK

TIME TO DO SOMETHING

Source: House of Commons library, numbers cover England only - other nations have similar problems

There are homes 904,000 with damp problems

This costs the NHS £1.4 billion per year

Around 653,000 households live in a home with an excess cold hazard posing a serious risk to health and safety

The wider costs to society
£15.4 billion per year

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Have a policy to recognise, remediate and avoid mouldy homes in the UK, accepted by the authorities

Extend the Decent Homes Standard in England to apply to private landlords
Amend the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 and explicitly call out Damp
Introduce ‘Awaab’s Law’ to set out new requirements for landlords to address hazards in social homes. Following a consultation, they will bring these into force as soon as Parliamentary time allows
Change the law so that social and privately renting residents can complain directly to the Ombudsman

Develop a standardised test to measure mould exposures in homes and other buildings

Give high-quality advice for people living in mouldy homes, people seeking to remediate or builders seeking to avoid

Medical support for mould diseases

Help raise funds for further research

Andrew Bradshaw, Andrew Bradshaw CSTDB, CSSW, AIMM, Co-Founder/Partner, Surveyor, The RTC group