Housebuilding

Baroness Butler-Sloss Excerpts

Thursday 21st September 2023 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)]

My Lords, why do the Government not require solar panels on all new buildings, particularly new houses and social housing? I ought to declare an interest: I put solar panels on my house in Devon in 2009.

[Lord Evans of Rainow (Con)]

The noble and learned Baroness is absolutely right to point that out. There is currently no obligation on housebuilders in new developments but, as she rightly says, an increasing number of individuals are putting solar panels on to their own properties, as she has done. There is no specific requirement for all new housebuilding, but that does not prevent individual initiatives.