The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Alistair Darling, has today published a major White Paper on future UK energy policy. The full document can be downloaded via the link below.
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fulldetail.asp?NewsAreaID=360&ReleaseID=286369
Although the White Paper does not deal specifically with housing as a headline topic, housing issues are raised at a number of points in relation to achieving the major policy objectives of energy efficiency and a national low carbon energy supply.
The policy measures proposed will be important for home builders because they deal with future arrangements for the promotion of various forms of low and zero carbon energy supply that will be needed to achieve the proposed zero carbon building performance standard in 2016.
