19 Mar 2026
Image description: A housebuilder working on the frame of a house-building project. Photo by Josh Olalde on Unsplash House-building plans in Kent are in jeopardy after South East Water has warned that it has the capacity to supply water to only one third of all the new homes being planned. The blueprint for 23,000 […]
23 Nov 2021
The focus of this paper is on Water-Energy-Carbon Nexus at a domestic level and how it presents both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is the contribution of water and energy to greenhouse gas (GHG emissions); the opportunity is to provide solutions, such as the 50L home, as a building block to signicantly reduce […]
28 Oct 2021
WaterUK on the Net Zero Strategy made this point … ‘For example, the Heat and buildings Strategy, published at the same time as the Net Zero Strategy, contained many laudable ambitions. But for our homes to be fit for the future they must be water efficient as well as energy efficient and we would have […]
17 Aug 2021
This review identified key areas of the planning process related to flood risk management and sets out actions the government will take to strengthen its approach. The government’s Planning for the Future policy paper announced a review of policy for building in areas at flood risk. In July 2020 the government published its Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk […]
30 Mar 2021
Green Homes Grant scheme to insulate houses axed By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst BBC ‘A much-promoted grants scheme to help householders in England insulate their home is to be scrapped within days. The Green Homes Grant (GHG) reached just 10% of the 600,000 homes the chancellor promised would be improved. The scheme will be […]
13 Aug 2020
Water coalition calls for Green Homes Grants retrofit scheme to include water efficiency measures The steering group for the UK Water Efficiency Strategy and the independent water efficiency campaigning organisation Waterwise have joined forces to urge the Energy Secretary, The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, to include water efficiency measures that save energy in the government’s […]
20 Feb 2020
The Climate Coalition has today published its report ‘Home truths: how climate change is impacting UK homes’, looking at the impacts of climate change on UK homes and the heightened risk of flooding, heatwaves and extreme weather. It states that that around 1.8 million people in the UK are living in an area with significant risk […]
10 Jul 2019
Flood Re has today announced proposals outlining how to encourage more properties across the UK to be made resilient to flooding. Flood Re was established to promote the availability and affordability of household insurance for eligible homes and, over its lifetime, enable a transition to affordable risk-reflective pricing for household insurance for those at risk […]
