New Zealand First has announced policy to insulate 53,000 homes a year until all New Zealand houses have adequate insulation. Leader Winston Peters announced the programme in a speech to Grey Power in Hamilton, saying the Government's Warm Up New Zealand scheme will be axed next year - despite 530,000 homes having inadequate insulation. "We have the Prime Minister who talks big about social investment but has cut a programme that helps homes to be warm and healthy for people of limited financial means," Peters said. New Zealand First said its insulation programme would be a public-private partnership (PPP) and aim to insulate 53,000 homes a year at a cost of $1000 per house - totalling $530m over 10 years. In the past eight years about 300,000 homes have been insulated through the Warm Up New Zealand insulation programmes.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 03, 2017 01:07 UTC