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| Election 2019: Labour pledges new-build homes 'zero carbon' by 2022 | Election 2019: Labour pledges new-build homes 'zero carbon' by 2022 |
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| Labour is promising to make all new-build homes "zero carbon" within three years, in an effort to curb housing shortages and tackle climate change. | Labour is promising to make all new-build homes "zero carbon" within three years, in an effort to curb housing shortages and tackle climate change. |
| A Labour government would introduce a "tough" standards for new builds which would see homes fitted with solar panels and not having gas boilers. | A Labour government would introduce a "tough" standards for new builds which would see homes fitted with solar panels and not having gas boilers. |
| The party says it would save £200 a year per house in energy bills. | |
| The Conservative Party described the plan as "unrealistic" and said it would slow house building. | The Conservative Party described the plan as "unrealistic" and said it would slow house building. |
| The proposals would mean the day-to-day running of the new homes would not add extra carbon to the atmosphere. | The proposals would mean the day-to-day running of the new homes would not add extra carbon to the atmosphere. |
| This would be achieved through better efficiency standards and using low carbon and renewable energy sources, it said. | This would be achieved through better efficiency standards and using low carbon and renewable energy sources, it said. |
| New homes would not be fitted with fossil fuel heating systems, such as gas boilers, as standard and would have "super-efficient insulation" and triple-glazed windows. | New homes would not be fitted with fossil fuel heating systems, such as gas boilers, as standard and would have "super-efficient insulation" and triple-glazed windows. |
| The last Labour government introduced regulations to make all homes "zero carbon" by 2016, but it was scrapped by the Conservatives six months before it was due to come into force, Labour said. | The last Labour government introduced regulations to make all homes "zero carbon" by 2016, but it was scrapped by the Conservatives six months before it was due to come into force, Labour said. |
| Asked about the added cost of installing greener heating, Labour's shadow housing secretary John Healey said it would be a "relatively small" sum compared to the total cost of new builds. | Asked about the added cost of installing greener heating, Labour's shadow housing secretary John Healey said it would be a "relatively small" sum compared to the total cost of new builds. |
| "It's totally do-able without big price increases," he told Radio 4's Today programme. | "It's totally do-able without big price increases," he told Radio 4's Today programme. |
| "We really should be looking to house builders to absorb these costs as well because this is an industry in recent years that has made billions in profits and paid millions in bonuses to top executives," he said. | "We really should be looking to house builders to absorb these costs as well because this is an industry in recent years that has made billions in profits and paid millions in bonuses to top executives," he said. |
| Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said: "As usual, Labour are setting unrealistic targets that would slow down house-building and put up house prices. | Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said: "As usual, Labour are setting unrealistic targets that would slow down house-building and put up house prices. |
| "Boris Johnson and the Conservatives are taking a practical, sensible approach to reducing emissions from homes. We are introducing a 'future homes standard' that will ensure new homes meet reductions in emissions by a third by 2020, and world leading by 2025." | "Boris Johnson and the Conservatives are taking a practical, sensible approach to reducing emissions from homes. We are introducing a 'future homes standard' that will ensure new homes meet reductions in emissions by a third by 2020, and world leading by 2025." |
| 'Environmental disaster' | |
| In a recent report, the Committee on Climate Change said greenhouse gas emission reductions from UK housing have stalled, concluding "homes are not fit for the future". | |
| Speaking at a rally in Swindon, Labour's leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "There is no greater issue facing this world than the environmental disaster waiting to happen and the climate change that is happening very obviously all around us." | |
| He said there was a sense of "global injustice" that the poorest people in the poorest areas seem to suffer the most from climate change. | |
| While he said he supported the Paris climate change agreement, in which 200 countries pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions, he said "it doesn't go far enough, we've got to go much further". | |
| During his speech on Saturday morning, the Labour leader also promised to end privatisation of the NHS. "I want to see a health service that is worthy of the name," he said. | |
| Mr Corbyn - who is hoping to take Swindon's two Conservative-held seats in next month's election - told supporters that society had been "disfigured" by austerity, which he said was "a political choice, not an economic necessity". | |
| He also laid out his plan to negotiate a new Brexit deal before offering the country a second referendum, which would include an option to stay in the EU. | |
| Reaching out to Leave and Remain voters, he said: "Both of you need a Labour government that's going to bring people together." |