A coalition of built environment professionals and environmental activists has written to the top civil servant at the housing ministry highlighting what it describes as “significant shortcomings” in the proposed Future Buildings Standard (FBS).

The letter signed by 21 separate groups says the government must be far more ambitious in the way it regulates the energy consumption of new buildings. Signatories include the RIBA, the Chartered Institute of Building, the Royal Town Planning Institute, the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers and the UK Green Building Council, as well as a raft of green charities.

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