The government is to scrap the 2035 ban on gas boilers in its new housebuilding standards.
It was a Tory policy, so Labour will expect to get kudos for doing so, despite the fact they are up to their necks in NetZero madness...
The previous Conservative government had laid plans to phase out gas heating for homes by banning the sale of new gas boilers by 2035, so people replacing their gas boilers after that date would instead have to buy a heat pump or other environmentally friendly way of heating homes.
The former prime minister Rishi Sunak was criticised by scientists and policy experts when he announced his backtrack on a range of environmental measures. This included significantly weakening the plan to phase out the installation of gas boilers by 2035, instead aiming for only an 80% phase-out.
About the only sensible thing he did, but it was too little, too late.
Now, the plan will be scrapped altogether and there will be no requirement to replace a gas boiler with an environmentally friendly alternative. Government sources confirmed the future homes standard (FHS), expected to be published soon, will not include a ban on gas boilers. They also confirmed there will not be a ban on the sale of gas boilers by 2035 and people will not have to remove them from their homes.
As if that could ever have been a viable option?
The long-delayed regulations are expected to make solar panels on roofs optional rather than mandatory, as campaigners have called for. Current plans for the FHS are only to “encourage” builders to equip homes with some solar panels “where appropriate”. This is despite the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, having promised a “rooftop revolution” during the election campaign.
The election campaign's over, and the 'rooftop revolution' all Labour MPs are worried about now is if the voters get angry enough to storm Paliament and throw them off the roof into the Thames!
No comments:
Post a Comment