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FROM THE EDITOR...


We emerge from another winter with a couple of pieces of good news to give cheer among an overall fairly gloomy global picture. Although proponents of ultra green living might not agree, due to the mysterious macro forces within the oil industry, petrol prices are continuing to come down. There may be a light at the end of the cost of living tunnel.


Of course, this doesn’t mean that the focus can come off the need to produce ever-more sustainable buildings, as we continue to become more aware of both climate change, and buildings’ contributions to it. When public transport is fi nally given the colossal investment it needs to make it a genuine alternative for most people, they might leave their cars.


The other good piece of news is that efra has fi nally grasped the SuS nettle – and is to make sustainable drainage a legal requirement in all new developments from 2024. Builders might not be happy, but all of us who love biodiverse settings will be.


While this looks to be a comprehensive piece of legislation (where the Floods Act failed to lead to anything approaching ‘mandatory’ SuDS), just how much it will actually affect individual self-builds remains to be clarifi ed.


Whatever the case, it will mean some pain, but a lot of sustainable gains for schemes big and small, and their communities.


JAMES PARKER


jan/feb 2023


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