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Slash-and-burn deregulation is no fix for the viability crisis
The Conservative Party’s bonfire-of-regulations pitch makes some fair points about development viability – but the crude politics of scrapping the Future Homes Standard obscures what smarter reform could actually look like
London wants whole-life carbon reductions. So why are its proposed limits focused on upfront emissions?
The proposed London Plan rightly sets out to reduce embodied carbon. But setting limits on upfront emissions is tackling the problem the wrong way round, writes Andrea Charlson
