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NewsAudit MPs scathing over green homes grant
Public accounts committee ‘not convinced’ that business department grasps full scale of the scheme’s failure
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Can we tell if housebuilders' net zero commitments are any more than ‘blah, blah, blah’?
The difficulties in measurement will make the substance of housebuilders’ pledges hard - but not impossible - to assess, says Joey Gardiner
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COP26: Nationwide retrofitting programme ‘needed to meet net zero by 2050’
Detailed roadmap published today by coalition of construction professionals
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Cost of decarbonising all UK homes could run to £330bn
Research from Savills says government interventions do not go far enough to persuade homeowners to carry out the work
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Countryside puts MMC at heart of net zero strategy
Housebuilder says it will reduce direct and indirect emissions by 42% by 2030, and ramp up timber frame construction
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Industry demands ‘bold’ action from politicians on climate
Resi developers included as built environment sector presents urgent demands at COP26 summit
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Industry laments ‘shocking’ failure to introduce domestic retrofit programme
Critics round on government over ‘unambitious’ Heat and Buildings strategy supposed to pave the way for net zero
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Heat pump grant for homeowners centrepiece of long-awaited heat and buildings strategy
Plans for £5k grant outlined in strategy to decarbonise 30m existing homes and commercial buildings
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London councils agree £98bn retrofit programme for 3.8m homes
Local authorities in London have agreed a plan to achieve net zero by retrofitting 3.8 million homes in the capital.
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New department 'needed to tackle retrofit challenge'
Trade group tells government that new ministry or agency should overseeing 20-year programme
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Tory MPs demand the government moves faster on low carbon homes
Rising star Bim Afolami says net zero ready homes needed urgently, even if housebuilders “scream and shout”
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Starmer pledges £6bn a-year ‘national mission’ to upgrade homes
Labour leader uses conference speech to announce plan to improve energy efficiency of 19 million UK properties
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Contractors put on notice for £750m retrofit framework
Four-year Fusion21 deal to include £500m of work to decarbonise existing homes
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Auditor slams ‘unacceptable’ delivery of Green Homes Grant scheme
Abandoned £1.5bn domestic retrofit discount scheme will help less than a tenth of the homes originally targeted
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Ministers mull plan to offer £7,000 grants for heat pumps
Ministers looking at quadrupling funding for existing Clean Heats Grants scheme and extending it by a year
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Government may reboot Green Homes Grant housing retrofit scheme
Business secretary admitted the scrapped £2bn programme had been ‘problematic’
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Notts retrofit to pilot net-zero ‘pods’
Nottingham City Homes to use system on 170 of its houses
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Government action on overheating is needed. Now.
The scandal of highly insulated newbuild homes that overheat in summer has been evident for years, climate advisers’ warnings can no longer be ignored
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Government must give out free heat pumps to deprived households
Open letter signed by 20 bodies calls for better incentives to drive uptake of energy-saving devices
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Government slammed for ‘notable’ failure to address dangerous overheating in homes
Major report says 570,000 homes have been built which will overheat since it first identified the issue
