Civil servant in charge claims publication of guidance for Code for Sustainable Homes poised to be released and explains delay

The definition of zero carbon for new housing will be released within the 鈥渘ext few weeks鈥 a leading civil servant claimed this morning.

Bod Ledsome, deputy director for climate change and sustainable development at the Department for Communities and Local Government, admitted that his department had had to spend more time copper-bottoming the standard to avoid 鈥減erver