Wales plans stricter green building rules

Under new measures in Cardiff, Wales, new buildings will have to become greener from December 31st 2011.
 
Part of the new measures will see new flats and houses built with combined heating, lighting and hot water bill as low as £7.50 a week by 2013.
 
To help achieve lower carbon emissions, welsh builders will have to use a combination of green technologies including heat pumps, photovoltaics, solar hot water and higher building standards.
 
Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson emphasised the need to "strike the right balance" between Wales' ambitious agenda on climate change and setting standards that did not make the cost of new building "prohibitively expensive" with the risk of stalling the housing market and losing the social value of new housing.


Davidson set out the targets during a visit to a "super green" housing development in St. Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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