{"id":72795,"date":"2020-03-05T10:07:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=72795"},"modified":"2020-03-05T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:07:27","slug":"zero-carbon-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/zero-carbon-targets\/72795\/","title":{"rendered":"Council leaders call for freedom on zero carbon homes targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Council leaders and Mayors from different political parties are calling on the government to abandon proposed restrictions on their ability to cut carbon emissions from housebuilding<\/h2>\n<p>In the open letter to the Secretary of State at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MHCLG<\/a>, the group, which includes Mayors of the UK\u2019s three largest city-regions, London, the West Midlands, and Greater Manchester, are demanding the freedom to set higher standards than government is proposing nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The open letter has been coordinated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukgbc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Green Building Council<\/a> (UKGBC). UKGBC is an industry-led network with a mission to radically improve the sustainability of the built environment.<\/p>\n<h3>The letter urges the government to scrap its recent proposal<\/h3>\n<p>Faced with the challenge of delivering thousands of new homes alongside meeting ambitious zero carbon reduction targets, the letter urges the government to scrap its recent proposal (in the consultation on Part L of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/the-future-homes-standard-changes-to-part-l-and-part-f-of-the-building-regulations-for-new-dwellings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building Regulations and the Future Homes Standard<\/a>) to restrict local planning authorities from setting higher energy efficiency standards for dwellings.<\/p>\n<p>The letter makes the case that \u201clocal leadership is absolutely central to achieving the government\u2019s commitment to net-zero carbon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With many local and combined authorities having declared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/climate-emergency-design-guide\/70764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Emergency<\/a>, the letter also recognises that &#8220;there are many benefits of reducing carbon emissions from new homes, such as improved health and wellbeing, better design quality and support for advanced methods of construction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the open letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukgbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/08657-Part-L-LA-letter-050320.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council leaders and Mayors from different political parties are calling on the government to abandon proposed restrictions on their ability to cut carbon emissions from housebuilding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[277,693,430,673,279,276,656,947,17747],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-built-environment","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-housing","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-manchester"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Council leaders call for freedom on zero carbon homes targets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Council leaders and Mayors are calling on the government to abandon proposed restrictions on their ability to cut carbon emissions from housebuilding\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/zero-carbon-targets\/72795\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Council leaders call for freedom on zero carbon homes targets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Council leaders and Mayors are calling on the government to abandon proposed restrictions on their ability to cut carbon emissions from housebuilding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/zero-carbon-targets\/72795\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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