Archives for January 2025

Recently, the UK government released a consultation covering England and Wales regarding the energy performance of buildings. In Scotland, responsibility for energy certificates is devolved to the Scottish Parliament, while in Northern Ireland, it is transferred to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The UK government collaborates closely with these devolved administrations to ensure the effective operation of energy performance legislation across the UK.

This consultation seeks views on the reform of the Energy Performance of Buildings (EPB) framework. It covers the following areas:

– clarifying and consolidating regulations, and focusing on improving the applicability, quality, and data usage of energy certificates in domestic and non-domestic buildings

– updating EPC metrics

– refining requirements for Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and Display Energy Certificates (DECs)

– improving data management protocols and strengthening quality control

– revising air conditioning inspection reports (ACIRs)

Please click the button below to read the consultation in full.

How to Respond

You may respond by completing an online survey on Citizen Space.

We strongly encourage responses via the online survey. Using the online survey greatly assists our analysis of the responses, enabling more efficient and effective consideration of the issues raised.

If it is not possible for you to use the online survey, you can respond through email. If you are responding in this way, please make it clear which questions you are responding to.

Email responses should be sent to: energyperformanceofbuildingsregulations@communities.gov.uk

Responses can be sent by post to:

Energy Performance of Buildings Reforms consultation
Building Systems and Insights Directorate
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Fry Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Responses should be submitted by the 26th of February.

GGF’s Response

There are 48 questions in total, we have listed below the Questions that we believe are most relevant to our sector with some proposed answers.  

At this stage it is not clear whether you will need to answer all the questions or whether you can decide which to answer. If you are unsure, then you can use ‘Neither agree nor disagree’. 

Unless we receive feedback from Members by Friday 21^stFebruary, then this will be the GGF’s proposed response to the consultation.