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An incoming Conservative of the ‘pointless red tape’ Labour to introduce green technology into many points, called for the EU
administration would had introduced into the housing households in order to reduce Energy Performance of Buildings
attempt to tackle carbon emissions industry. carbon emissions. Directive to include high minimum
in the existing housing stock by Shapps signalled that the Tories In addition, housing minister efficiency standards for building
introducing a Carbon Cooperation would ditch Labour’s centralised John Healey reiterated the components, and a requirement
Plan, the party’s annual conference targets for new housing, and instead government’s commitment to for public authorities to implement
heard last month ahead of next get local authorities to take the affordable housing, with backing for the recommendations on Energy
year’s general election campaign. initiative, by providing monetary housing association new builds, and Performance Certificates within
This would aim to increase the incentives for new house building. announcing a second round funding three years.
energy efficiency of the housing He proposed matching extra council for councils of £180m for 1,200 new It also demanded the removal
stock by encouraging employers to tax revenues from new homes, affordable homes. from the directive of the 1000m
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‘green up’ their employees’ homes. pound for pound, for six years. At the Liberal Democrats threshold for buildings undergoing
Housing spokesman Grant At the Labour Party conference, conference, delegates endorsed renovation.
Shapps announced that a energy and climate change secretary the party’s Zero Carbon Britain The Liberal Decomcrats also
Conservative government would Ed Miliband unveiled a £10m green environmental policy. A wide- committed themselves to a ‘Warm
scrap Home Information Packs, neighbourhoods pilot programme ranging energy and climate change Homes’ programme, to make all UK
which he described as symbolic in around 20 areas across the UK, motion was passed – which, among homes energy-efficient by 2020.
Britain facing one-million
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housing shortfall by 2010
The UK is facing a housing supply population growth. Even more will
shortfall of a million homes be needed to replace old housing
by 2010, with the gap between stock and reduce the accumulated
demand and supply widening by an backlog in supply.
expected 150,000 homes in 2009 The report claims that the
alone. under-supply of housing has
The claim is made in a new serious social and economic
report by the Town and Country consequences for the UK, and
Planning Association, which could impact on economic
said the combined impact of prosperity.
the mortgage squeeze and the Although house prices may be
economic downturn could see showing tentative signs of recovery
as few as 100,000 new housing (partly owing to reduced capacity)
MediaCity sustains a world first
completions in 2008/09, and could return to 2007 levels The £500m MediaCityUK development in Salford’s historic docks is
Authors of the discussion within five years, without sustained the first project to be accredited under the new BREEAM Communities
paper, Mind the Gap – Housing public intervention it could take scheme. The scheme rewards high levels of sustainability on a project,
Supply in Cold Climate, found that seven years for housing production initially at design-stage but then following through to post-construction.
as demand for housing continues to return to pre-slump levels. MediaCityUK, which will be the a new home for parts of the BBC, uses
to grow, at least 250,000 new The authors put forward the resources of the Manchester Ship Canal in a tri-generation system to
homes will be needed each year 15 recommendations for the power, heat and cool buildings on the 36-acre site.
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