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Gas boilers to be banned in new builds by 2023, reports suggest
All new homes in England will be banned from using gas boilers within three years as part of a raft of measures being introduced by the government to meet its 2050 net zero target.
Several national papers have reported that the ban on gas boilers in new builds, originally expected to be introduced in 2025, has been brought forward by two years.
According to The Times, the proposal to introduce the ban was originally included in the 10 point plan to tackle climate change that the prime minister announced yesterday, but was removed within an hour of the paper contacting the government for clarification.
According to The Times and the Daily Mail, government sources confirmed that the reference to the ban “wasn’t supposed to be in there”, but is “definitely part of the plan”.
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Developers had been expecting the government to ban gas boilers from 2025 as part of its Future Homes Standard, which it announced in October last year.
The government said it is analysing the feedback it received as part of a consultation on the 2025 proposals.
The impact assessment of the Future Homes Standard, released by the government at the same time as the consultation, revealed the raft of changes proposed for new builds could cost the industry £10bn over 70 years.
Plans to bring the deadline forward come as part of a set of measures for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ that Boris Johnson revealed yesterday.
These included the banning of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 and an extension of the £2bn Green Homes Grant, which provides vouchers to homeowners and landlord to help them improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
The grant, £500m of which is distributed by local authorities to low-income households, has been extended until December 2021 for local authorities and March 2022 for everyone else.
