On 26 January, The Housing Forum convened the housing sector to hear from representatives from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), the Building Safety Regultor, the Future Homes Hub and Pollard Thomas Edwards to discuss the ongoing consultation about the Future Homes Standard.
The Future Homes Standard will change building regulations to ensure that homes are safer, easier to heat and maintain, and better suited to a net zero world.
The new rules are intended to come into force in 2025, to help buildings be zero carbon ready, with changes to building materials, design, and low-carbon heating.
Consultations are ongoing until 6 March about the Standard itself, the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) methodology and how the standard will be assessed, for which The Housing Forum is preparing responses. If you would like to input into this consultation please contact Anna Clarke, our Director of Policy & Public Affairs, at anna.clarke@housingforum.org.uk by 16 February.
To help Housing Forum members prepare for the Future Homes Standard, inform The Housing Forum’s own response to the consultations, and feed back to the government, The Housing Forum convened an event with representatives from government and the housing sector. The event featured presentations on the below topics:
The Future Homes Standard: why it is being proposed as it is, and the main ways in which it differs from existing building regs (Oliver Novakovic, The Future Homes Hub)
Challenges and opportunities in building to higher environmental standards (Alexis Butterfield, Pollard Thomas Edwards)
The consultation and issues where DLUHC would particularly value the views from across the housing sector (Orla Wheeler and Joe Dowley, DLUHC)
The speakers answered questions from Housing Forum members who attended the event on a variety of topics, including the differences between the HEM and SAP methodologies, the cost estimation behind the standard, and the comparison of the Future Homes Standard and similar standards like Passivhaus.
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