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GLA – The Energy Hierarchy - London Plan 2021
06 Apr 2021
Building new homes and places of work in London is already a difficult task… The London Plan policy sets the country’s strictest targets for meeting low energy and carbon emission standards. Earlier this month, the…
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GLA – The launch of The London Plan 2021
17 Mar 2021
After what feels like years of consulting, re-writing and political one-up-man-ship, the Greater London Authority has formally launched The London Plan 2021. This 500+ page document will shape the way our capital evolves over the…
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Future Building Standard – Proposed Requirements for Change of Use Projects
16 Mar 2021
When the Future Homes Standard was published in 2019, it didn’t consider work to existing buildings. This omission has now been rectified with the Future Building Standards. It proposes new targets and requirements affecting three…
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Future Building Standard – New Requirements for Renovations
16 Mar 2021
Proposed changes to Approved Document L and the introduction of a new building regulation for overheating have taken the limelight in recent weeks. But the Future Buildings Standard also includes changes to Part F, which…
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Future Building Standard – Tougher Requirements for Extensions
16 Mar 2021
Pretty much all of the debate around the Future Homes Standard has been to do with new builds. But the Government’s follow-up release, the Future Buildings Standard, talks about some significant changes to the requirements…
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New Overheating Regulations – Do I need to design my next site with smaller windows?
15 Feb 2021
New Overheating Regulations – Do I need to design my next site with smaller windows? As part of the UK Government’s Future Building Standards update last month we learnt, as rumoured, that a new Approved…
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Future Building Standard – Tougher SBEM targets
15 Feb 2021
Future Building Standard – Tougher SBEM targets The Government is changing the way we design and build non-residential units in England from next year. The Future Buildings Standard is a consultation which follows-on from the…
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Future Homes Standard updates – The new targets
22 Jan 2021
Future Homes Standard updates – The new targets The new version of Approved Document Part L is set to go live in England in June 2022 and, as anticipated, the Target Emission Rate will be…
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Future Homes Standard updates – What you need to know from Day 1
20 Jan 2021
Future Homes Standard updates – What you need to know from Day 1. After months of speculation and delay, we can finally confirm there has been movement with the Future Homes Standard, and confirmation that…
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Has Cardiff jumped the gun by announcing Part L go live dates?
02 Dec 2020
Since the UK Government announced plans to introduce a Future Homes Standard, or, as the papers like to call it, the ‘gas boiler ban’, the three most common questions we’ve been receiving are: Are they…
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Overheating targets introduced into Welsh Building Regulations
02 Dec 2020
I’m not sure what the opposite of a ‘fanfare’ is, but that’s exactly how the Welsh Government announced plans to introduce a new chapter to Building Regulations last week. Approved Document Part S will make…
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Will Boris’s Ten Point Plan change housebuilding in the UK?
18 Nov 2020
Will Boris’s Ten Point Plan change housebuilding in the UK? Boris Johnson has this week announced a Ten Point Plan for launching a ‘Green industrial revolution’. It’s hoped these environmental commandments will jolt the UK…
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