SEPA asks for views on housing sector consultation
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is asking for views from the housing sector as it prepares to complete its consultation in February.
The organisation is shifting its approach to regulation by moving focus from individual sites to sectors, to ensure that the activities it regulates within each sector and its supply chain comply with environmental regulations. It also wants to support businesses in each sector to become more resource efficient, innovative, and drive environmental performance by doing more than they are required to by law.
SEPA sees huge opportunities in the housing sector to go further by building and improving homes in ways that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, maximise resource efficiency, minimise environmental impacts and create high quality places, with benefits to health and well‑being.
The agency’s housing plan encompasses the entire life-cycle of homes (site selection through to reuse or demolition for redevelopment), including both existing stock and new builds. It is looking to engage with homebuilders, home owners, those who rent, the entire supply chain (including waste hauliers, industrial operators, construction companies and sub-contractors) and others that influence the sector.
According to SEPA, the environmental performance of social housing projects is varied and it would like to hear about users experiences. In particular, it wants to understand if there are barriers to complying with environmental law that it could resolve as a regulator and what support it could provide to help you go further.
Please visit HERE and complete the consultation by 15 February 2019.
If you have any questions please contact our sector team sector.service@sepa.org.uk.