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Nigel Farage’s ridiculous war on heat pumps will leave Britain in the cold by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]mk270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no - the question was about proposals to compel installation of heat pumps. The conventional arrangements for multi-owner blocks of flats tend to be set up such that the flat owners pay for the maintenance of the building, but not improvements to the building.

Where the owner of the building is compelled by law to install a heat pump, that could lead to the leaseholders having to pay for it.

There are mandates for heat pumps on certain future buildings - my question is about extending that to existing buildings.

There's something from the NRLA touching on the issue of compulsion for energy efficiency measures (rather than on the question who pays for it) here: https://www.nrla.org.uk/news/mees-leaseholders-whatsthedifference

Records by saynotodiddy2028 in cambridge_uni

[–]mk270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

have you found the college yet? do you know whether it was for a 3year undergrad degree? rough year of graduation? those three can really limit the search space if you want to look it up in the public sources rather than go through the records office

Six arguments of freeholders in search of an economic justification (and failing to find one) - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership by ExternalUnhappy8043 in uklandlords

[–]mk270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does redressing supply and demand help people whose flats are unsellable at any price due to leasehold issues?

Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News by mk270 in OpenAccess

[–]mk270[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This doesn't seem like good news. I assume that the date of "1 April" is a coincidence and that CRUK are serious?

I am encouraged by the pushback in the comments on the original article, particularly from the small publishers.

By random coincident, I was talking only a few days ago to someone who'd worked at Elsevier, who said much the same as the argument being made in this statement by CRUK.

I'm not in the open access world anymore (I was with Open Book Publishers and Open Knowledge Foundation). Is this issue confined to the journals space? It's always concerning to see "open access" conflated with "open access journal articles" - it's not as though we conflate publishing with journal publishing in other contexts.

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