Government may ditch its own green standard for eco-towns

摘要

The government is considering abandoning the use of the Code for Sustainable Homes for its flagship eco-towns programme. Building has seen draft guidance, written by external consultants for the communities department, that suggests that eco-town homes should instead be measured against a European model of energy output per square metre. The draft guidance says that the code's emphasis on using on-site renewables to make homes carbon neutral makes little sense in developments of the scale of eco-towns. It says: 'The proposed size of the eco-towns would make district-wide renewable power significantly more viable than on-plot microgeneration, allowing the adoption of simpler and more consumer-orientated measurement." The eco-towns are intended to include up to 20,000 homes.