Consultation outcome

Next steps to zero carbon homes: small sites exemption

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 18 November 2014
• Last updated: 27 March 2015 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Government response and summary of responses to the consultation

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4560-7

PDF, 573 KB, 22 pages

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Detail of outcome

This document sets out the government’s response to the issues raised during the consultation and provides a summary of responses to the consultation.

The document is structured around the chapters set out in the consultation document which explore how an exemption might work. It includes a summary qualitative analysis of the views and comments submitted for each consultation question as well as tables showing how the different organisation types responded to the question.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on the government’s proposals for small site exemption in relation to zero carbon homes policy.

This consultation ran from
10:30am on 18 November 2014 to 11:45pm on 7 January 2015

Consultation description

The government recognises that achieving the zero carbon standard could be particularly challenging for small builders. Therefore, it announced earlier this year, that there would be an exemption from part of the zero carbon commitment for small sites.

The purpose of this consultation paper is to explore how this proposed exemption might work and to inform further development of the policy.

This consultation will run for 7 weeks and ends on 7 January 2015.

Documents

Next steps to zero carbon homes: small sites exemption

Ref: ISBN 9781409843818

PDF, 400 KB, 16 pages

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Published 18 November 2014
Last updated 27 March 2015 + show all updates

1. 27 March 2015

   Published the government's response and the summary of responses document.

2. 18 November 2014

   First published.