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Will The Government Uphold The Merton Rule?
December 03 2007
MPs led by the Conservative Michael Fallon will introduce a private member's bill to parliament this week in a bid to prevent the government relaxing rules that require construction companies to fit renewable energy sources to new buildings.
The bill is designed to support the ‘Merton Rule’ (where developers must source at least 10% of any new building's energy from renewable sources), introduced by the London borough of Merton four years ago. The rule has been copied by more than one hundred local authorities, but has come in under pressure from the building industry, which objects to the cost.
The housing minister Yvette Cooper has since said that off-site renewable energy producers, like offshore wind farms, could be allowed as part of the 10% level, but environmentalists say those wind farms would be built anyway.
I will be having a breakfast meeting with a building construction group on Thursday 6 December and will report on their findings and point of view
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