Consultation outcome

Housing standards review: technical consultation

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Housing standards review: summary of responses

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Detail of outcome

This document is a summary of responses to the technical consultation of the housing standards review.

This consultation analysis report summarises the views expressed by consultees. Overall there were 527 responses.


Original consultation

Summary

Consultation seeking views on the proposals for implementation of the housing standards review and in particular the technical standards.

This consultation ran from
to

Consultation description

This publication sets out the government’s revised policy on housing standards and seeks views on draft technical standards and other practical matters of implementation. This follows the 2013 consultation, the outcome of which was announced in March 2014.

These new standards will underpin the delivery of high quality housing whilst ensuring that the overall cost of development is reduced. This includes for the first time the introduction of Building Regulations for security standards to ensure homes are better protected from crime; and optional Building Regulation requirements, which can be introduced where justified by need and viability for age friendly and wheelchair user housing standards to meet the needs of older and disabled people, and for higher water efficiency to ensure that new development is sustainable.

In addition, we will have published a national space standard for new dwellings to enable local authorities, communities and neighbourhoods to influence the size of development in their local area.

An updated impact assessment has also been published which indicates the scale of savings that could be achieved, based on more comprehensive evidence and survey information received since the initial impact assessment was published in 2013.

Documents

Housing standards review: technical consultation

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Draft Approved Document G: water efficiency standard

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Draft Approved Document H: solid waste storage standard

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Draft Approved Document M: access standard

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Draft Approved Document Q: security standard

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Draft nationally described internal space standard

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Updates to this page

Published 12 September 2014
Last updated 27 March 2015 + show all updates
  1. Published summary of responses document to this consultation

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