roydo
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Pretty sure planning applications have a fair few green boxes that need ticking. Maybe not enough, but its not an ignored issue.
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Pretty sure planning applications have a fair few green boxes that need ticking. Maybe not enough, but its not an ignored issue.
If there’s enough renewable electricity, air or ground source heat pumps would be sensible options for houses that are energy efficient.
At the moment, no. No national legal requirement for solar panels, solar-charged batteries, rainwater harvesting or grey water recycling. And absolutely no sensible reason why they aren't all mandatory on new build houses and flats.
The current requirements are in areas such as insulation - all well and good, but this causes excessive electricity use in the summer with thousands of people running fans and portable aircon units for three months solid.
Source: family member is a planning officer for a local authority.
EDIT: off-topic. Truss is a moron, and I say that as a Tory voter.
and the ramshackle baboons arse before her?
Interesting. I don't think Mordaunt was as impressive as Badenoch or Tugenhadt, but she does have more cabinet experience.
Braverman and Truss stood out from the rest of the shortlist as being miles out of their depth in my opinion.
Not as poor as Truss... In very much the same way that breaking your spine is not as bad as your head being completely removed from your body.
Of the final two, I voted for Sunak. But the consensus opinion amongst my tory-voting friends is that the membership has been presented with two poor candidates from a field that featured better alternatives.
theory is hes always had a few quid!
can you pick out the one very best thing theyve delivered in the past 12 years and then the one worst? please.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
That is a surprise, I must admit. Have you told those folk gluing themselves to the M25 that insulation is not all that?
The stuff we had to use 20 years ago works well. Keeps the cool in the summer, and heat in when cold. Other than severe conditions, obvs. The UK is crap at severe, or "normal" most other places.
And yeah. Truss. Utter moron.
I actually think I'd have preferred to have kept Johnson over Truss, and Johnson was a complete and utter farce.
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I keep seeing people mention insulation being a problem in summer months as it keeps heat in but surely insulation is just a barrier to heat transfer - it also keeps cold in. If you open your windows to let cool air in at night and then close them in the morning, then the cool air should be kept inside by the insulation. Even if a/c is needed to cool down the air, having insulation should mean that the air stays cooler longer - so less a/c needed just like less heating is required in the winter if you have good insulation.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Says it all. I guess, without being a supporter, having such a low expectation she may surprise me. But somehow, she appears so thick, I doubt it.
Nor am I, but for all his flaws at least Johnson demonstrated some examples of guile, tenacity and leadership, whereas Truss doesn't fill me with any optimism.
As a non-Conservative, do we think Sunak has been undone by ties with Johnson (tarred a potentially good carer?) and his talk of taxation?
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Well, whether its the 20 year old insulation, or witchcraft, when it was mad hot in the summer, our cottage stayed cool inside. (No windows open, curtains drawn mind), and in the winter, it needs a kick of heating for 30 mins or so, early evening, but then sound as.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
I posted the other day that I could see why folk bought into Johnson. Rightly or wrongly.
I would feel more assured with Sunak in #10 personally. But it was red meat Tories making the choice. Go figure.
I think having a tax dodging wife did for Sunak.
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