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Energy efficiency upgrading of housing can promote wider sustainable development aims and objectives because it produces environmental, social and wider macro-economic benefits in addition to lower fuel bills to the householder. This paper uses a cost-benefit analysis framework to assess the potential scale of some of these benefits from the comprehensive upgrading of heating and hot water energy...