Latest UK House Building Industry News, Policy, Regulation, Planning

Excellent EcoHomes standard must be the minimum – Porritt

1 Feb 2005

[MMC-IMG=1235-A=Left] New homes that are not built to the EcoHomes Excellent standard are a design failure and will hamper the government’s attempt to meet its carbon reduction targets, warned Jonathon Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commiss

Second home buyers to be banned from Yorkshire Dales new homes market

1 Feb 2005

In a radical new plan to deal with rural residents being priced out of their own communities by city-dwelling second home buyers, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority is planning to ban the latter from its new homes market.