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A short briefing highlighting the potential benefits to residential development in town centres and some of the current policy challenges surrounding this - informed by a roundtable co-hosted with Gowling WLP.
On 17 December 2024, the Government published its response to the latest annual progress report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). This note provides a short summary of the response, highlighting issues of most interest to BPF members and the wider the real estate sector.
The property industry's offer to the Government and other policymakers
We support the broad policy of encouraging the development of low carbon heat networks, which align with the sector’s net zero ambitions. We do, however, want more transparency and reassurance on cost and quality and want maximum visibility and certainty over the development and roll out of individual heat networks. It will be important that local authorities are sufficiently resourced to deliver any new responsibility and further consideration needs to be given to landlord and tenant issues.
