FUTURE HOMES: Net Zero Transition Report

In April, the Future Homes Hub launched the New Homes Sector Net Zero Transition Plan, a shared pathway for decarbonizing new homes consistent with delivering on the Government’s 1.5m new homes target. Developed together by the sector and the Carbon Trust, and drawing on homebuilder net zero plans, the Government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plans, and other sources, the plan aims to improve long-term certainty for, and provide a structure for collaboration between, developers and their supply chains. 

In March, the Hub released their ‘Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of FHS Options’ report.   

In September 2020, the Future Homes Task Force was set up to develop a long-term delivery plan for the sector in line with the Government’s legally-binding net zero and wider environmental targets. The Delivery Plan is divided into four areas, with a goal and roadmap for each area. The Delivery Plan also set out the specification for the Hub.

The goals are:

• High-quality homes that are zero carbon ready and sustainable.
• Places and developments that are consistently low carbon, nature-rich, resilient, healthy, well designed and beautiful by 2025.
• Production and construction methods that are net zero and sustainable by 2050, with substantial progress by 2025 and 2030.
• Businesses that are recognised and rewarded for net zero and sustainability performance

The Future Homes Hub has now been set up as a non-profit making company limited by guarantee. It is an independent organisation bringing together the homebuilding sector with the wider circle of supply chain, infrastructure, finance and Government organisations that need to collaborate. Over 40 of the largest homebuilders committed and many other related organisations committed to working together through the Hub to achieve the goals on publication of the plan.