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We have witnessed over the past few years a number of Housing Associations showing a keen interest in funding one off Code 5 or 6 developments, after which they are reluctant even to build to Code 4 as a standard level of attainment.

This brochure lead approach to sustainable housing provision is not going to get any of us very far. Unfortunately, the levels of funding available for future developments does not encourage HAs to move any faster than minimum compliance dictates.

We have undertaken a series of post production tests of our own, and in conjunction with Nottingham University based on a programme of 22 houses built across a number of small brownfield sites to establish the success of our Code 4 housing from a human perspective, as it is this that will ultimately establish how successful this wave of eco housing has been.

As this housing has all been built to a Code 3 budget, we need to prove that it is possible to provide the quality of housing now required by legislation without it having to cost any more than the current funding levels allow.

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