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As shown recently at Futurebuild 2024 held at London’s ExCeL, where an entire conference stream (in partnership with the Retrofi t Academy) was given over to retrofi t, it’s now the fl avour of the month, to say the least. As ever, trends normally end up being driven by pragmatism, and along with enlightened


clients and architects, housebuilders are increasingly now looking to RMI to provide their bread-and-butter work, as the new build market continues to stagnate.


This is excellent news for our climate-addressing ambitions, as in the UK there are 28 million homes that need addressing to improve their performance for net zero – this eye-watering fi gure was bandied about by many commentators at Futurebuild. We simply can’t train enough retrofi t specialists to service all of this demand, whatever the Academy’s bold ambitions to create a new industry devoted to refurbishing our existing buildings. All housebuilders large and small will need to be retrofi tting our homes with insulation, whether outside or inside, making other fabric improvements and introducing non-fossil fuel energy.


It’s a colossal undertaking which might mean going onto something like a ‘war-footing’ level of co-operation such as the construction industry has never witnessed, and is in fact instinctively opposed to. If the Government wants it to happen on such a scale, they will need to embrace top-down planning which has also been largely absent since post-war building programmes.


Local authorities will be the other main arm of leverage, and Westminster has already taken up the cause, instigating a new ‘presumption’ in favour of retrofi t for all housing projects it considers. Its new policies mean developers “must explore the option to retrofi t before demolishing buildings.” The long-running saga of whether Marks & Spencer’s historic Oxford Street store (which is under Westminster’s aegis) will be demolished and rebuilt or refurbished (the former now seems likely), casts doubt over council’s new pro-retrofi t bullishness.


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Secretary of State at DLUCH Michael Gove had refused M&S’ plan to demolish and rebuild to a design by Pilbrow & Partners, preferring a retrofi t of the 1929 Art Deco building which may have proved more eco- friendly exactly for that reason, and due to a perceived impact on nearby heritage. However a recent twist has once more seen The High Court defying the Government, ruling that Gove was ‘rewriting national policy,’ and administering a major dent in the Department’s ego.


The problem is, we need to try and engineer the case for the fi rst development option not being a new building, but for redevelopment, as this works against many of the industry’s motivating forces.


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