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Scottish Government Consultation–Sustainable Housing
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
The Scottish Government has published a
consultation on 'Homes that don't cost the
Earth'. According to a press release, "The
Scottish Government wants everyone in Scotland to be able to live
in a high quality, sustainable home that they can afford and that
meets their needs. This consultation seeks views on our plans up to
2030 for warm, high quality, low carbon homes for people in all
housing tenures."
The document has been developed with input from the Sustainable
Housing Strategy Group, made up of organisations from the housing,
fuel poverty, environmental and consumer protection fields, and is
centred around five themes:
- A national retrofit programme to tackle fuel poverty, make sure
the climate change milestones set for housing are met and to enable
Scottish households and businesses to get maximum benefit from
energy company and other investment;
- Standards - to consider the role that regulation could play,
alongside incentives, in driving uptake of energy efficiency
measures;
- Financial market transformation to create long-term change in
perception among surveyors, lenders and consumers of the real value
of low carbon, energy efficient homes - in order to drive the
market;
- New build market transformation to maximise the potential of
the innovative design and construction techniques being developed
by Scottish companies to create greener homes and neighbourhoods,
which will in turn create export and other economic
opportunities.
Skills and training to capitalise on opportunities to make
Scotland a market leader in providing and exporting low-carbon
housing solutions.