New Towns Housebuilders to Be Stopped From ‘Diluting’ Design or ...

New towns housebuilders to be stopped from ‘diluting’ design or ...

Michael Lyons tells UKREiiF conference that working on government’s 10,000-home developments will come with ‘clear expectations’ around design and mix

Weak regulation on new-build homes costing families an extra £6,000

The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) have calculated that homeowners who have bought new build houses in the UK since the scrapping of the Zero Carbon Homes standard have collectively paid £5 billion more than they would have done had those standards been enforced. The Zero Carbon Homes policy was cancelled under David Cameron’s government in 2016, which argued that housing regulations were adding costs to developers and slowing house…