Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 9
Fifth Report - Local government and the path to net zero
Published 29 Oct 2021
Paragraph 41
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Reaching net zero requires ensuring that new homes are designed and built in a way that will avoid subsequent retrofitting and are built to net zero standards. This will also avoid the cost of ensuring higher standards being borne by the people living in the property, rather than being met by the developer. There needs to be certainty about the details of the Future Homes Standard as soon as possible to ensure the 2025 target is met. The technical consultation on the Future Homes Standard should take place in 2022 rather than 2023, thereby enabling the relevant legislation to be brought forward as soon as possible to ensure greater certainty for suppliers and developers. The Government should consider setting a further target of moving to zero carbon homes by 2030.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Fifth Report - Local government and the path to net zero (HC 34), paragraph 41, 29 October 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 18 January 2022 (deadline 29 December 2021).