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EPC Atlas Research - UK Data Book 2026 Volume One v0.3

London EPC Research: The Hidden Fabric and Loft-Efficiency Divide

London has the lowest regional D-or-below share in the ten-region comparison, yet unusually high Poor/Very Poor wall and window evidence and a high low-loft share among applicable House/Bungalow records.

2,639,163London searchable records
44.01%D-or-below - lowest region
56.00%Poor/Very Poor wall efficiency
46.99%known House/Bungalow loft depths at or below 100 mm

London headline

London has the lowest regional D-or-below share in the ten-region analysis at 44.01%, but its fabric indicators look very different.

Walls and windows

Poor/Very Poor wall efficiency is recorded on 56.00% of London records and Poor/Very Poor window efficiency on 17.06%, both unusually high in the regional comparison.

Property mix matters

60.48% of London records are Flats and 32.27% are Houses. That composition changes how roof and loft fields should be interpreted.

The loft-depth result

Among London House/Bungalow records with a known numerical loft depth, 46.99% are at or below 100 mm. Islington records 55.34%, Kensington and Chelsea 54.66% and Camden 53.62% on the same applicable known-depth denominator.

Solar and multi-element evidence

London Solar PV: Yes is 0.329%, the lowest regional share. Kensington and Chelsea (2.83%) and Westminster (2.78%) lead the qualifying Triple Poor/Very Poor + D-or-below ranking.

Evidence boundary

The figures describe searchable EPC Atlas records and source fields. They do not automatically identify a current dwelling population, current legal ownership, current occupancy, live equipment condition, installation date, a building survey, a costed retrofit plan or measured energy use.

Source

EPC Atlas UK Data Book 2026, Volume One v0.3, dated 28 August 2026. The full corpus contains 17,624,989 searchable records across ten England-and-Wales regional datasets. Scotland and Northern Ireland are outside the corpus.