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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Campaigners fear loophole will let new homes in England be fitted with gas boilers

An old central heating boiler  and a hydrogen boiler
‘Hydrogen-ready’ boilers are far cheaper for housing developers than fitting heat pumps. Photograph: Sem van der Wal/ANP/AFP/Getty Images

Ministers are preparing to allow new houses to continue to be fitted with gas boilers, long after they were supposed to be phased out, campaigners fear.

A loophole being considered for the forthcoming future homes standard, a housing regulation in England intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from newly built homes in line with the net zero target, would allow new homes to be fitted with “hydrogen-ready” boilers.

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