"It is outrageous that people will be buying homes that are expensively heated with gas when we have perfectly good technology – heat pumps – that can be installed instead

[junesim63@mstdn.social]

"It is outrageous that people will be buying homes that are expensively heated with gas when we have perfectly good technology – heat pumps – that can be installed instead.
Another two years of this really should not be happening. We are in a war, and a most severe energy crisis, and it would be perfectly easy to ensure all new homes have heat pumps now.”
Prof Jan Rosenow

Yet again Labour has caved to the housebuilding lobby.

#FHS #Housing #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/24/ministers-delay-new-rules-for-low-carbon-housing-in-england

[junesim63@mstdn.social]

"The delay in bringing in the FHS, which was expected to come into force next year, is also likely to mean hundreds of thousands of new homes will be built with gas heating, despite soaring costs caused by the Iran war.

Last year, data from the MCS Foundation, a charity that certifies low-carbon installations, showed only 4,000 new-build homes were equipped with low-carbon electric heat pumps, out of about 140,000 homes"

#FHS #Housing #UKPolitics

[epistatacadam@toot.wales]

@junesim63 and we could easily impose higher thermal loss standards, at the same time, would add about £100 to cost of average house, whilst paying for itself every year in whatever heat source is chosen. Improved ventilation requirements would reduce sickness in population so improve productivity and reduce NHS costs and waiting times, but joined up thinking is impossible for politicians.