sustainability
Scotland’s scrapped carbon emissions pledge could affect housing ...
25/Apr/2024
Scotland's scrapped carbon emissions pledge could affect housing and plans for a new Scottish Passivhaus Equivalent Policy ...
Green Building Store rebrands as 21° ...
11/Apr/2024
Green Building Store has rebranded as 21° in line with its vision to empower more people to build sustainably ...
Mandatory BNG goes live for major sites ...
12/Feb/2024
Mandatory biodiversity net gain has gone live for major sites, although small custom and self build sites are exempt ...
Self builds deliver more local beneficial impacts, finds new research ...
02/Feb/2024
New research demonstrates that self and custom build homes deliver greater local beneficial impacts than typical new builds ...
NaCSBA Conference 2023 – overview ...
24/Nov/2023
NaCSBA's second annual conference at the NSBRC was a packed day of insight and data to reflect the current custom and self build market ...
Passive house training by Beattie Passive for professionals ...
02/Oct/2023
Beattie Passive is running a pair of free passive training events offer insight into Passivhaus for self builders and professionals ...
Government plan proposes to unblock nutrients neutrality stalled sites ...
29/Aug/2023
The Housing Secretary Michael Gove is to scrap Natural England‘s requirement to block housing in areas polluted by Nutrients Neutrality. Gove announced the significant deregulation of the rules around Nutrients ...
BPN launches free Building Performance Evaluation modules ...
21/Aug/2023
Check out these free Building Performance Evaluation modules from the Building Performance Network, supporting sustainable building practices ...
Two thirds of MPs back solar panels and EV charging ...
31/Mar/2023
Two thirds of MPs back solar panels and EV charging on all new build homes, finds poll by YouGov and MSC Charitable Foundation ...
New report on nutrients neutrality offers solution to allow some ...
29/Mar/2023
A new report on nutrients neutrality highlights strategies that would allow limited house building to progress ...