Comment

Representation ID: 23206

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Francesca Jarvis-Rouse

If homes are required let the Black Country take the lead showing how we can build back better. The actual cost of building in carbon efficiencies in the building phase is significantly less than retrofitting. Saving energy and bills for some of the most vulnerable people in UK.

Additionally contractor should be constantly challenged to built environmental for the benefits of the inhabitant and environment not just for profit.

The policy should include operational carbon emissions but also embodied carbon emissions. For a new home, the embodied carbon emissions from construction can be as much as half the carbon footprint measured over its 60-year design life (RICS, 2017)

There is considerable evidence base for much stronger local standards, a there is no agreed national standard, "Future Homes standard" still be some years away and subject to consultation.

The statutory Climate Change Committee have repeatedly made clear that national policies for new homes are not yet driving change at the required pace (CCC,2019).
The United Nations, IPCC, and other commentators consider 2050 targets will be too late to prevent irreversible climate change, missing the Paris target to limit global warming to 1.5degC (UNCC, 2021), (IPCC, 2021).