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31. The Government should set out, as soon as possible and no later than the end of 2008, exactly how zero carbon performance is to be defined, and how far the use of renewable energy is to be taken into account into the assessment of performance. The assessment rules should differentiate between local and remote renewable generation, and should allow for the different circumstances of different sites.
32.The Government should update SAP to reflect the definition of zero carbon, and to incorporate other factors, as soon as possible and by the end of 2009 at the latest. Scope needs to be allowed for future technological development, but the core elements of SAP should not then be subject to further revision for at least 10 years.
33.CLG, with the housebuilding industry and representatives of building control, undertake work to ensure that regulatory requirements for zero carbon are verifiable in the course of building control inspections. The technical aspects of verification will need to be considered in parallel with the development of SAP.
34.Government and the housebuilding, construction products and energy supply industries should jointly commission a delivery unit to monitor, co-ordinate and guide the zero carbon programme.
35.The existing English Partnerships Carbon Challenge, the Government’s Eco Towns programme and other initiatives focused on Code level 3, 4 and 6 homes should be brought into an exemplar homes programme, and where appropriate reshaped, so as to make the most effective contribution to the learning that is needed.
36. Local authorities should be encouraged to participate in a national exemplars programme. An early opportunity should be taken, either in the forthcoming Planning Policy Statement on Climate Change or separately, to stipulate that any planning conditions in relation to the energy efficiency of new homes or the provision of renewable energy as part of a development should support delivery of the national zero carbon target; and that the local planning authority should have strong regard to advice from the zero carbon delivery body on how this can best be achieved.
Water and Sustainability
37.Defra and CLG, working with the housebuilding, water supply and construction products industries, should develop a programme of small and larger scale field testing of water recycling technologies and building designs.
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