Housing and Communities Minister, Baroness Penn, was welcomed to Keepmoat’s Gedling Green housing development off Lambley Lane in Gedling village today by Gedling’s Conservative Member of Parliament Tom Randall MP.
The Minister and Tom were shown around the zero carbon ready homes on the development site near Gedling’s Country Park which are being constructed using locally produced building material and with low carbon air-source heat pumps, solar panels, energy storage in the hot water tanks (producing free hot water), underfloor heating, EV charging points and an energy efficiency rating of A.
After the visit, Tom Randall MP said: “By 2025, all new homes will have to be built to the Government’s Future Homes Standard which will ensure new homes produce less carbon emissions and are cheaper for families to run. It is fantastic that Gedling is leading the way with this housing development near the Country Park.”
Housing and Communities Minister, Baroness Penn said: “This is really exciting because the Government is consulting on the Future Homes Standard at the moment and that’s going to come in for all new houses built from 2025. It means using new technologies like heat pumps and solar panels and it means that houses will be all electrified so that when the grid decarbonises, they will be running at net zero. That helps meet our net zero targets but also importantly these houses are designed in a way to bring peoples bills down at the same time, so they are cheaper to run and warmer to live in. Improving our environment, the energy efficiency and the bills people are having to pay.”
