Government publishes Future Homes Standard response

[AngelaE]

The Government has published its response to the 2019 Future Homes Standard consultation. From 2025, new homes will not be built with fossil-fuel heating, and will be future-proofed, so that no further energy-efficiency work will be needed for them to become zero carbon. The role of local authorities in setting energy-efficiency requirements for new homes is to be clarified, and for now, local authorities keep powers to set local energy-efficiency standards for new homes. There will be a 2021 interim uplift in energy conservation standards, to reduce carbon and provide a step up for industry towards the new Standard. Transitional arrangements will provide all developers with certainty about the standards they are building to.

Click the link below and see the consultation response in full:
Future Homes Standard Response