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The government plans to phase out the Code for Sustainable Homes as part of a shakeup of housebuilding regulation, raising concerns it lacks a vision for sustainable housing.

The housing standards review consultation, published today, proposes getting rid of the Code for Sustainable Homes and using building regulations or a new set of national standards as the primary driver for improvement in homes鈥� green credentials.

It said: 鈥淭he government proposes to wind down the role of the Code. We will put in place transitional arrangements to ensure that contractual commitments under the Code can be properly covered.鈥�

But Paul King, chief executive of UK Green 黑洞社区 Council, said while it made sense to 鈥渞ationalise鈥� standards in the industry there were holes in the government鈥檚 proposed standards.

鈥淲ith the demise of the Code for Sustainable Homes and big omissions around materials and ecology, we risk losing a momentum that has transformed the way homes have been built over the last seven years.鈥� he said.

鈥淕overnment claims its plans will take off the bureaucratic handbrake that holds back house building, but it is in danger of letting key sustainability considerations roll away completely.鈥�

He said the government needed 鈥渁 vision for national housing standards鈥� so the industry could have 鈥渃larity and certainty鈥� over what it would be required to do in the future.