Planning Reforms: Energy and Housing Costs Debate
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Lord Geddes
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Planning Reforms: Energy and Housing Costs
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Lord Geddes (Con)
My Lords, is it not mandatory for all new houses to have on their roofs solar panels or photovoltaics?
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab)
My Lords, we are developing the future homes strategy, which will point to all the net-zero measures that we want to see. We do not want new houses being built that have to be retrofitted, or that are technology-specific, because the technology is developing at pace and we want to make sure there is enough flexibility in the system for new technologies to be adopted. Things such as solar panels and air source heat pumps are great innovations that are really changing our homes, keeping them warmer and making them more carbon neutral.