Energy-saving standards must be enforced

by Andrew Warren, Deputy Chair of the Partnership, 16th August 2007

House building is no longer a political backwater, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has seen to that. The policy urgency is simple: it is about numbers. It is also officially about becoming more energy/carbon friendly.

Effectively this market place is no different from any other: it is about supply and it is about demand. We don't supply many new homes each year. Out of 24 million homes in Britain, just 160,000 were built last year.

To read the article by Andrew Warren published in the Have your Say section of the Telegraph online click here.