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Damien McGill owns three rental units on Manchester Street in Christchurch and has collected data over winter showing they are already warm.
Government officials are looking into landlords’ concerns that a requirement to upgrade heat pumps in many rental properties is excessive. However, the analysis is not a priority for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development – and no new advice will be imminent despite the deadline for new or renewed tenancies to meet the Healthy Homes Standards approaching in July this year. A Christchurch landlord raised the issue with
Stuff, saying he believed getting bigger heat pumps was wasteful and could lead to tenants not heating their homes.
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South Auckland tenant awarded $7k over illegal bedroom, roof leak, no insulationIn a ruling by the Gisborne Tenancy Tribunal on December 12, Cottle was ordered to pay his tenant $3300 in exemplary damages for failing to insulate during the tenancy that ended in September, but as the tenant had failed to pay $6450 in rent, the landlord didn t have to hand over any money. Adjudicator K Goldsbury found Cottle s failure to insulate was an intentional act, saying there had been a lot of publicity during Cottle s ownership of the house advising landlords of their insulation obligations and the timeframes. To impose exemplary damages, a tribunal referee must be satisfied a landlord has committed an intentional act, Goldsbury said.
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