Government mandates solar panels for ‘vast majority’ of new-build homes

Three new sets of guidance - including a new standard from the RICS - attempt to clarify & formalise the emergent multi-billion-pound residential retrofit industry.

A one-metre increase in sea levels could happen within a generation, warns the Committee on Climate Change, putting millions of homes at risk and wiping out many of Britain's most coveted waterfront locations…

30-40,000 custom and self-build (CSB) homes could and should be built in the UK each year, says Richard Bacon, in a report that rails against "houses designed by accountants".