Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government.
I love this news, but I wish we revisited the Liberal Democrats’ efforts in 2010 to insulate the existing housing stock. My mum’s 1970s house got loft insulation for free from the coalition government and it’s now so good at retaining heat.
I now live in a Victorian house that is extremely expensive to heat and I have to have windows/vents open to prevent damp. I wish we got free loft insulation…
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Holy shit this has been a long time coming and it’s about bloody time!
I’ve been getting proper fed up of seeing new builds with a token one or two panels, presumably a requirement for getting an A rating, only for them to be put slap-bang in the middle of the roof so that the owner is unable to add capacity without ripping the whole thing out and starting again. It reeks of malicious compliance and they’ve been allowed to get away with it for far too long.