Inside Housing Magazine is reporting that the government has put the brakes on plans to improve energy efficiency in existing buildings, but promised to look at the issue again in the future.
The Communities and Local Government department had dropped its requirement for extra eco-work to be carried out on any house that was refurbished or extended. That principle of ‘consequential improvements’ has been cut from its consultation on changes to part L of building regulations.
John Fiennes, the director for sustainable buildings and climate change at the CLG, insisted that it has been taken out to allow new housing minister John Healey to consider the proposals. Speaking at a conference on Wednesday, Mr Fiennes said: ‘We can see the part that consequential improvements have to play. It is not off the agenda but it is a question of how. It is about making the transition of the minister smooth: we needed to get part L out.’
However, the government needs to act quickly, if it is to stay in line with European policy in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
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