Low carbon housing: the challenge
Low carbon housing: the challenge
Terms of reference
The
Climate Change, Environment and
Rural Affairs Committee agreed to assess the Welsh Government’s progress in
relation to low carbon housing and to consider what needed to be done to ensure
the Welsh Government achieved its commitments to meet energy efficiency and
emissions reductions targets. We explored:
- What role can housing
can play in Wales’ low carbon transition, including the potential positive
impacts on greenhouse gas emissions?
- The development and
availability of technology needed for highly energy efficient housing;
- What changes are
needed to ensure that existing housing stock is as energy efficient as it
can be?
- Whether it is
possible and feasible to deliver low carbon, energy positive, affordable
housing at scale in Wales and, if so, how this can be achieved;
- What are the barriers
to delivering transformative change in house building in Wales?
- What is the role of
Ofgem and the national grid in enabling grid evolution to accommodate new
types of housing, and what are the challenges presented by decentralised
energy supply?
- Whether Wales has the
requisite skills to facilitate and enable change in the housing sector;
- What changes are
needed to Building Regulations in Wales to accelerate progress towards
‘near zero’ energy standards and beyond?
- How communities can
be planned and shaped to be more energy efficient and low carbon
(including examples of good practice in Wales and further afield).
The
Committee received written evidence from stakeholders and these have been published.
Report
The Climate Change, Environment and Rural
Affairs Committee published its
report Low
Carbon Housing: the Challenge (PDF 1MB) on 2 August 2018 and the Welsh
Government responded
(PDF 279KB) on 17 October 2018.
The
report was debated in Plenary on 24
October 2018.
Business type: Other
Status: Complete
First published: 26/09/2017
Documents
- Committee report: Low Carbon Housing the Challenge - 2 August 2018
- Welsh Government response to the Committee's report - 17 October 2018
Consultations
- Low carbon housing: the challenge (completed)