Over 200 businesses call on Chancellor to save zero carbon homes standard

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Industry leaders accuse Ministers of undermining investor confidence and pushing up the costs of decarbonisation

Nearly 250 organisations, including some of the UK's largest construction and property firms, have today written to Chancellor George Osborne urging him to reconsider the government's controversial decision...

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