Future Homes Standard

Business Secretary tells MPs Heat and Buildings Strategy will arrive 'soon', as speculation continues to mount over how the government will look to slash domestic emissions

Documents obtained by green group's investigations unit reveals housebuilder told government its plan to slash emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2025 were 'too ambitious'

21 organisations call for new National Retrofit Strategy in letter to top civil servant at housing ministry, warning current standards lack 'vision and ambition’

The government's plans for Building Regulations are a step in the right direction, but they must go further and not hold local authorities back, argues the UK Green Building Council's Philip Box

Government confirms Future Homes Standard will apply to any new homes built from 2025, delivering a major uptick in the pace of the shift away from gas boilers - but campaigners are left disappointed by failure to adopt more rapid timetable

A target for all new homes to be built without fossil fuel heating was initially announced, then de-announced, for 2023 - but how realistic is that target date, ponders ECIU's Jess Ralston

Government accused of delivering underpowered green recovery plan that only delivers half of CO2 cuts required over coming decade