The Government has today finally release the widely discussed and long awaited changes to Part L of the Building Regulations – Conservation of Fuel and Power.

Unfortunately these have been scaled back significantly from a 20% improvement to only 9% improvement in energy efficiency.

This is in part a reflection of the high capital cost of making building more energy efficient but goes some way to paving “steps towards our zero carbon ambitions”, quoted by Baroness Hanham.

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