Paul, North Wales

17 January 2011

As a professional working person, I have been renting houses in North West Wales for the last five years.

All the properties I have rented have been through private landlords. None of these houses have been sufficiently modernised or insulated. Consequently, they have been both difficult and expensive to heat efficiently.

It is extremely annoying that private landlords are allowed to rent out badly maintained and poorly insulated houses. The current Government needs to act to see that the law is changed.

I now work for a university and come into contact with a great number of students. Many have suffered this winter due to appalling living conditions and lack of sufficient heating and insulation in their privately rented student houses.