Gas Boilers Banned in New Homes From 2027
Gas boilers are to be banned in most new homes by 2027 as part of legislation being brought forward by the Government. The Telegraph has the story.
Under the so-called Future Homes Standard, which aims to slash carbon emissions across households, developers must ensure that new-builds are only fitted out with electric heat pumps or non-gas alternatives.
Rules regarding the gas boiler ban are expected to be announced as early as May next year, although they are unlikely to be enforced until the relevant legislation takes effect in 2026.
That would be followed by a 12-month delay to ensure housebuilders are prepared for the switchover, as first reported by the Financial Times.
The proposed ban comes after the previous Tory Government launched a consultation on the Future Homes Standard policy last year.
The new legislation aims to reduce carbon emissions across all new homes by up to 80%.
However, the decision to outlaw gas boilers has raised concerns over whether the heat pump supply chain can grow quickly enough to match Sir Keir Starmer’s bid to build 300,000 new homes a year.
Worth reading in full.
Currently only about 35,000 heat pumps are installed each year. Boosting that to 300,000 a year, nearly 10 times more, in three years seems like a stretch. The bigger problem of course is that people don’t like heat pumps because they don’t heat the house or water very well and, with electricity prices high, are not cheap to run.
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“The new legislation aims to reduce
carbonemissionscomfort and warmth across all new homes by up to 80%.”Yep exactly——Our Political Class work for the UN and WEF, not for you. —–Miliband and Labour are squirming eco parasites, but the rest of them are not far behind. Remember it was a Conservative that gave us the NET ZERO Amendment in 2019.
“Parasites” is far too lenient. This government and all who support it are traitors. It’s about time we faced our situation honestly and stop passing about. This government is wholly committed to genocide.
People need to wake up.
Don’t worry, all those new homes won’t have electricity anyway, the entire system is on its knees already at 1-2kW per house! A 6-10 kW estate would never be given a connection.
The Millibands and Starmers won’t lose any warmth or comfort, you can bet on that.
What’s the odds they have heat pumps?
Rank stupidity.
Correct
With a strong possibility of colder longer winters approaching in the near future this policy will cause deaths from hypothermia
It’s absolute madness to keep pushing this crap on people, it’s damned dangerous!
And that seems to be the intention.
Far from ‘rank stupidity.’ I do not believe for one minute that there is a great deal of intelligence in the fake PTB but there will be enough for the likes of Kneel, Thieves, Milibrain to understand that the combination of their cumulative policies can only have one outcome – mass deaths.
Yes huxleypiggles I try best not to attribute to malice what can be pure ignorance. I think we have the convergence of a few things; Dunning Kruger effect, authority bias, bandwagon effect and over specialisation in the sciences… The latter meaning our cleverest aren’t polymaths anymore but hyper specialist in on niche (say climate science, and even then probably hyper specialist in one aspect of climate science)
I broadly agree, but “over specialisation in the sciences” isn’t a factor: the dingbats driving all this are not scientific at all, they are part of a belief system. And there’s no such thing as “climate science”!
The non-science people are deferring to scientists who have narrow fields. It’s the combination of those factors that matter not each individually.
Who are you not calling a polymath? You will try very hard to find an engineer who supports any of this!
As a chartered mechanical engineer myself I’m inclined to agree. But there are plenty of engineers in the climate and energy sectors who do believe in this stuff.
My point is more that politicians are deferring to narrow field scientists. This is the same in net zero as it was during covid. Following what epidemiologists and immunologists told them to do rather than looking at or thinking about the bigger picture.
”However, the decision to outlaw gas boilers has raised concerns over whether the heat pump supply chain can grow quickly enough to match ”
I think there may be 1 or 2 other concerns as well, such as;
Will there be enough electric to run these heat pumps
Is the electric supply infrastructure able to cope with the demand for the amount of electric needed for heat pumps and EV charging.
Are there enough heat pump engineers to install and maintain these devices.
It is hard to predict exactly where all this nonsense will end up? but the likelihood of there being an almighty disastrous mess does seem quite high.
See above; revised plans would have to include modified distribution circuitry by the relevant DNO to cope with it (along with the loss of trade on the gas side), assuming they’re talking about new developments.
There you are, the elites will say, evidence we need more immigration to supply the engineers we have not got. Open the taps wider for Nigerians, Pakistanis and others from the emerging world; they will know how to do it!
Nonsense!
In a word – NO.
Only a disastrous mess? You are joking, it will be the end of Britain as we know it, because moving back will be very difficult, expensive, and take many years.
Spot the changes in property plans, revised planning permission etc within three years to achieve that. Bound to result in increased prices up front, even if the running costs are reasonable. Still, there could be opportunities in the trade, as there was when gas fired boilers became popular in the mid 1970s. A bit of revenue for the Treasury as well, no doubt.
This government doesn’t think things through. Completely incompetent.
Oh, this has been thought through, not by this government admittedly but the measures have been well considered.
You forgot to mention the WEF and hangers on!
Afraid you may struggle to believe this after you read the Comment from ‘No one important’ above. That’s it in a nutshell, with a few names missing [e.g. Gates]. This government are just useful idiots, as are all local Councils, Planners, JSO, the Blob, etc – a formidable enemy arranged and arraigned against us. I fear that blood will have to be spilt to stop this tidal wave of corrupt nonsense, nothing less will work. Trump will help a lot, but we’ll need an uprising too
It’s hard to disagree with your analysis..
Please note that sentence in the article: “The proposed ban comes after the previous Tory Government launched a consultation on the Future Homes Standard policy last year.”
This is not just a problem of “this government”. It is the whole political class, Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and Green, and indeed the civil service, who are bought into the Net Zero death cult.
We need to drain the swamp here in Britain, as Trump is about to do in the USA.
Yes, you’re right.
From Polly over at TCW – a bit long, but fascinating reading: “Unfortunately few people know the awful story behind the UK’s climate laws and the corruption between senior politicians and George Soros who was the motivating force for the legislation leading to today’s energy disaster. Tony Blair met with George Soros for private talks at the New York Plaza Hotel on April 10 1996 and later sold to Soros and his consortium extremely valuable British state assets in cut price sweetheart deals in 2000 and 2003 and provided the laws and policies Soros desired. Including the Climate Change Act 2008. New Lab Environment Minister 2006-2007 David Miliband was the architect of the Climate Change Act 2008 which Soros wanted and David Miliband was subsequently awarded the highly lucrative CEO position in a New York charity supported with “hefty donations” by Soros. Tony Blair received many years of consultancy work from Soros worth $millions. David Cameron who strongly supported the Climate Change Act and whose Conservative Party mainly voted for it, subsequently received a directorship of a Soros financed organization. The first chairman of the Climate Change Committee, Lord Adair Turner, appointed by Soros’ friend Gordon Brown was in an… Read more »
Hello Polly
I always used to believe British politicians could not be corrupted. How naive I was.
We are now governed by UN/WEF lackeys that are in full agreement that our lifestyles are UNSUSTAINABLE. ———This is what we voted for. How can we be so collectively DUMB?
I’m so glad I replaced my gas boiler last year. I want nothing to do with this nonsense.
Sadly most of the population are still falling for the climate change hoax, propaganda and brainwashing especially some younger people. There are not nearly enough enlightened souls due to suppression and censorship by the legacy media. Thank goodness for Toby and this site. It should be compulsory reading in our schools. People might only begin to wake up when they are personally affected by power outages and food shortages.
I fear that is the only circumstance under which they might awaken from their stupor. God willing it will not be too late to turn it round.
A really mean part of me is looking forward to some prolonged power cuts where people under, say, 25, will virtually cease to function once their phones run out of juice. I can hear the anguished cries now as they suddenly come face to face with the real world, and not the fantasy land that has been created for them online.
GBNews seems to be afraid to tackle the climate lies.
To be fair, at least there is a slight chance that the houses will be built to be able to use the heat pumps – adequate radiators and piping, correct insulation etc, but I’m not holding my breath. I wonder what will happen if the houses remain unsold, like EVs at the moment?
Radiators? You have been brainwashed. They are the cause of at least some of the uselessness. It will be concrete underfloor heating or air to air. None of these is in the Government plan, because 24/7 electricity is required!
I don’t even know what a heat pump is. I wonder if anyone does. I don’t think I want to know I can imagine how ghastly they are. Really tight-fisted with the heat I bet. Extremely unreliable and full of annoying ‘efficiency features’. I bought this really annoying fridge which set off an alarm if the door was open for more than a minute and there was no way to disable this feature. What if you want to stare at the contents for longer than that or are taking your time filling the fridge up. Sick little twats.
It’s basically a reverse fridge which concentrates latent heat by using it to evaporate a very low boiling point fluid, like pentane, which then condenses again, releasing that heat. Your fridge, which you speak so highly of, is a heat pump. Feel the back of it – it’s warm. Imagine that, but scaled up, with a built-in electrical heating element to boost the output. As someone stated, with electricity prices going one way and supply stability another, the overall outcome is not hard to predict.
Or think reverse AC unit – brings heat in from outside and, in effect, removes ‘cold’ (not technically correct but you get the idea).
I assume they have some form of electric heating element in them as well in case the temp difference is not enough?
No generally no heating element, because that would bankrupt you in winter. In cold weather my house (reasonably insulated but 1930s) needs about 10 kW to heat to a nice temperature in cold weather, say 0C. A heat pump with a COP of 2 in cold weather would take 5kW of electricity to produce that heat. It would cost nearly £2 per hour whereas my gas costs about a pound maximum. The economics are mad!
There is an electric heater on the outside evaporator though, to stop it freezing solid with ice in cold weather. This reduces the COP very significantly.
Whatever else heat pumps are, they are extremely ugly, stuck as they are on the outside of houses.
There may be nefarious purposes at the WEF/UN level, but I’m inclined to think that Kneeler, Milibrain et al are simply useful idiots, beholden to an ideology/pseudo religion, wilfully blind to the practicalities associated with their crazy proposals.
It seems highly likely that ideology will experience a hard impact with reality in the near future. Presumably this will come in the form of power cuts (which will no doubt be why Northern Powergrid sent us all a PR text message last week, offering us ‘extra’ help in the event of said power cuts).
We can but hope that the resulting suffering/chaos/anarchy, and the abrupt change in public perception of these insane energy policies results in an enforced U turn, before it’s too late. This winter maybe? The sooner the better.
Houses with heat pumps also need more powerful electricity supplies, especially if they are to have EV charger(s) as well. I doubt very much if the capacity exists to install such electricity supplies.
I have considerable doubt whether people will be prepared to pay the prices developers will need to ask for houses in the coming years. By the time heat pumps, enhanced insulation, EV chargers and biodiversity net gain are included the cost per unit will be considerably increased.
The recent announcement of import tax on cement will do nothing to help.
As it is we have to import bricks, cement, timber, windows or window profiles and most of the second fix materials. The damage to our balance of payments from 1.5 million votes between June 2024 and June 2029 will be unaffordable.
Labour costs have risen sharply as many retired during “Covid” and employers’ NI will add to the damage. Even the higher costs of ICE engine fuels in site equipment and vehicles will be considerable.
I don’t know what the national picture is, but locally all schemes going to planning feature gas heating. Despite the declaration of the climate emergency! heat pumps are classed as “nice to have”.
There ARE some schemes locally involving heat pumps, but they’re demonstrators, paid for by us. Unfortunately, the experience of building and using these guinea pigs isn’t shared.
This is important because experience of users is very mixed, per a contact in social housing. Any chance there’ll be bad news and they’ll bury it.
I wouldn’t worry none of this is going to happen. That’s the schtick they know that it would never be brought to fruition but is is seriously money until the plebs pick up on the spiel. Do you really think that when we enter serious life or death times that anyone is going to be thinking about the Miliband family? They are disturbed evangelists and as a population we are decadent and grotesque. They won’t win it is just unspeakable carnage in the process of removing them. Not the kiling but the lassitude. They have said many times that this agenda has nothing to do with trees it is about global redistribution maximized to where it suits their interests best. It isn’t difficult to figure out it makes perfect sense in terms of their survival. Like you have a monster living in your cellar and he asks you to give him one more drop of blood and then he will be quiet.
Local Council planners have effectively banned the installation of gas boilers in new houses for the last 5 years, never mind in the coming year. I wonder if this has ever been challenged legally? Effectively, local Planners [who may have friends in the heat pump sector…] are dictating our energy policy, and we have no recourse against them, they are Council employees [working from home, no doubt]
But then they run into a lack of electricity supply. All electric developments have had to install gas because the local grid could not supply the power required.
I’ve been gathering up wood and storing it in sheds. I remember what happened in Greece when the EU tried to starve them into submission. People did have to burn their own furniture. And obviously in England in our scrotebag culture you are going to have people trying to nick what you have worked for. Just keep it alive. Nobody wants to be a nasty killer but you have to garner a realistic appraisal of things.
You can slag off Abdul all day long and yet remember he provides you with all the food you enjoy, Whether it is beef biryani, chicken madras or mixed meat vindaloo, Imagine those things were taken from you. You would be shaking in a corner because you have no replacements. You need Abdul far more than he needs you.
Where is Abdul getting his groceries, and fuel ?
Don’t ask, you won’t like the reply.
My response to this proposed ban is “good luck with that then!”
I wonder if the decision to include neither air-conditioning, nor sound-proofing nor vibration suppression in Salford University’s Centenary Building because of “concerns about climate change and carbon” will be re-considered. Perhaps freezing and cooking students was a trial run for pensioners and then the general populace.
Labour has pledged to build 300,000 new homes a year but does anyone actually believe anywhere near this number will be built. Every government for at least the last 20-25 years has pledged to build a huge number of new homes and they’ve all failed by a large margin.
“requiring new-builds to be only fitted out with electric heat pumps or non-gas alternatives.”
Excellent. We would be able to replace our oil-fired boiler 🤣🤣
I wonder what the non-gas alternative is? Coal fires perhaps, but they are banned!
As modern houses are banged in cheek by jowl and as retired environmental health officer with years of experience dealing with noise from neighbours and industrial premises I am waiting for the noise complaints to roll in to Local Authorities.
I suspect there will be mayhem. Especially with many people sensitive to infra sound and various other frequencies.
Fancy having the equivalent of a supermarket chiller next to your bedroom or living room or when relaxing in your garden?
People will be driven mad. I hope there will be plenty of neighbourhood police!
Those of us who have open minds and want the full range of information about things often read that heat pumps struggle to provide winter heat in colder climates. (We had air conditioning installed in our previous home, where we had solar panels capable of fully powering it during the day, and were amused to read that the system would cool more effectively if the outside temperature was colder, and heat more effectively if the outside temperature was milder. We tried it for heating on a frosty day and it really did very little.) But we rarely read about the noise from such systems. Our inverter was tucked away in a little enclosed fenced-off area quite distant from the neighbours. Even though it was mounted on “silent blocks”, you could still pick up the low frequency background noise in the house. Once these devices are installed on semi-detached or terraced properties it’s going to be much harder to prevent them affecting both residents and neighbours. Another issue that’s rarely discussed is Legionnaire’s disease. Will the heat pump warm the domestic hot water supply to the recommended 60°C once a week? Probably not, so you’ll need to have the old-fashioned electric… Read more »
Out of interest, where are all these heat pumps going to be made 🤔
I think you already know the answer to that. 😉 And it wouldn’t surprise me if the factories were powered by fossil fuels too!
China, and of course they are! China has more coal power stations than the rest of the World together, closely followed by India.
If this goes ahead some housebuilders may go bust and the nunber of new homes built may crash because buyers are not likely to embrace Net Zero heat pumps or electric heaters.
There could be a lot of unsold houses. Perhaps if the price is reduced the buyers could have an LPG gas boiler fitted with the savings?
And they want to build 1.5 million new homes? These will be for rich people only, heat pumps are no kind of sensible install even in new homes, because electricity prices, even with a heat pump, make them cost more than gas to heat! Oh dear, never mind.