<p><span>A new Delivery Hub is to be established to direct the housebuilding industry’s response to meeting the government’s environmental targets.</span></p> <p><span>Following the Home Builders Federation’s second Housing and Environment Summit, a new cross-sector Future Homes Task Force has announced its plans, with the Hub set up to drive the industry’s intention to deliver net zero, “environmentally positive” new homes.</span></p><p></p> <p><span>The Task Force - consisting of representatives from across the sector including in housebuilding, government, utility provision and suppliers - met with wider industry leaders at the virtual summit to further discuss the challenges surrounding the environmental agenda for the industry.</span></p><p></p> <p><span>HBF said that to meet the “high level ambitions” surrounding tomorrow’s new homes, with their improved fabric efficiency, ways of being powered and impact on their environment, the industry needed an overarching masterplan to co-ordinate the various issues and regulatory requirements.</span></p><p></p> <p><span>The Task Force will develop this masterplan, which will be based on the government’s main environmental targets: on net zero, the natural environment, resources, water and air quality.</span></p><p></p> <p><span>The Delivery Hub, HBF said, would be established as one of the Task Force’s first objectives to implement the masterplan “and drive forward work on a day-to-day basis”.</span></p><p></p> <p><span>The multi-million pound …