New building rules 'will raise carbon emissions'

More than eight million tonnes of carbon, equivalent to the emissions of 11 million passenger flights across the Atlantic, will be released by homes built over the next eight years, according to a housing group which says new rules do not apply to private developers.

Under the regulations, homes built by housing associations will have to reduce their carbon emissions at a faster rate and over a shorter period than those built by private developers, who will have two years' grace before the regulations take effect.

The National Housing Federation fears this approach will mean that the 1.4m new homes built by private developers up to April 2016 will needlessly emit more than eight million tonnes of carbon over their lifetime.

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