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Closer to home, the Conservatives threw their weight behind a new generation of nuclear power in the UK, and some significant changes to the rules around low-carbon building. Most importantly, the government ruled that zero-carbon homes could use off-site energy solutions, although they should focus primarily on energy efficiency.

The Part L consultation is rumbling on, although without 鈥渃onsequential improvements鈥�. The plan to compel homeowners to make energy efficiency improvements to their homes when doing other building works was dropped at the eleventh-hour by housing minister John Healey.