Anchor Environmental Sustainability & Net Zero Carbon Strategy 2023 – 2026
New properties Build new, energy efficient homes which are comfortable and affordable to run. Anchor has an ambitious development programme, planning to build 5.700 new homes over the next decade by: • Redeveloping existing assets - whole buildings, infilling on spare land, building atop existing properties or extending buildings onto adjacent available land. • Finding and developing new and existing sites across England in our priority areas. In new developments, the Future Homes Standards and Part L of the Building Regulations are already imposing requirements to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon. The 2022 amendments to Building Regulations require CO2 emissions from new build homes to be around 30% lower than previous standards and emissions. Under the Future Homes Standard, new homes built from 2025 will not be permitted to include gas connections. Where homes are built to current Building Regulations and planning requirements, they will need to meet a minimum standard of EPC B. In addition, car parking will need to provide electric vehicle charging points. Care is required to protect residents and offset the higher costs of heating homes electrically by specifying higher building fabric standards and, where practical and possible, efficient heat pumps instead of direct electric. For more than five years, we’ve been designing and building high quality new homes that reach high energy efficiency standards and in 2022 we phased gas heating out of our designs, ahead of current and incoming building regulations which we acknowledge are
not sufficient to achieve net zero carbon emissions. EPC Ratings: New Developments
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Anchor has committed to building 5,700 homes over the next decade. We have been building to a minimum standard of EPC B, but from 2023 will be designing to net zero and delivering to a minimum ‘green line’ standard.
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