The rather short sighted move to ‘drop’ the zero carbon homes target, was revealed on Friday- 9^th July- under Chancellor George Osborne’s economic productivity drive called ‘Fixing the Foundations’.

He continued, “Climate change is the single biggest challenge facing us today. If we continue to build homes and buildings that are not as energy efficient as they could be, we are just creating problems for the future.

The UK is currently faced with a huge program of retrofit, to bring the current housing stock up to even just minimum energy efficiency standards. So why are we planning on adding to that problem?

It just doesn’t make sense, and if anything it justifies even more rigorously the need for high level engagement between Government and industry. HHIC and its members urge the Government to reconsider.

Yes we need more homes, and yes we need to stimulate the economy, but at what cost?