PHT's position on the Future Home Standard

Collaborative voice

Signed a collective industry letter and encouraged others to do so.

Call for higher standards

Sent a private letter urging the Government to recognize a higher (voluntary) standard within the FHS from 2025 onwards. In summary, our proposals are: 

1. All-electric new dwellings certified to meet the exacting Passivhaus standard should be deemed to satisfy Approved Documents Part L 1A. Passivhaus dwellings will achieve better energy efficiency, equivalent CO2 emissions, lower running costs and better comfort conditions than those built to the proposed Future Homes Standard Options 1 & 2.

2. Local authorities should be allowed to set a higher standard than the Building Regulations within their local plans, should they wish. If there is a desire to minimize variation in standards across the UK, then one of the existing variations currently in force – in London (set by the GLA) or in Scotland (proposed by Alex Rowley MSP and the Scottish Government) – could be recognized as an accepted aspirational option.

Position paper

Published a position paper on Passivhaus as an alternative means of compliance to the FHS can be found here.