IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week highlights Designing Buildings on ‘New energy rules… a threat to towns and cities across UK’.
… risk that we will see a significant decline in some towns and cities…
Designing Buildings writes:
New energy efficiency regulations could see the closure of thousands of offices across Britain, plunging towns and cities into a ‘death spiral’ of economic decline and unemployment, according to a new research report from Construction Analysts Barbour ABI….
‘With high streets already under pressure and levelling up funding yet to make an impact, there is a considerable risk that we will see a significant decline in some towns and cities, with landlords deciding not to invest and meet these obligations,’ said Barbour ABI Chief Economist Tom Hall…..
Almost three-quarters of the office stock in the major UK office markets will eventually be affected, and 56 million square metres of commercial space is already failing to meet current regulations. Areas outside the southeast will be most heavily impacted. The risk is that huge swathes of commercial building stock will sit empty, leaving a blight on our towns and cities…..
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