The government appears to have finally confined its zero carbon homes policy to the scrapheap, following a battle with the House of Lords.
Last month, the upper house defeated the government by 48 votes over an amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill, seeking to reintroduce the zero carbon homes standard that the government scrapped last July.
However, yesterday the government finally defeated the amendment in the Lords by a margin of just four votes. In place of the zero carbon amendment, the government introduced a clause into the Bill committing to a review of the energy efficiency standard for new homes in the Building Regulations. The review clause contains no timescales or specific criteria.
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