21/03/2008 - Old Houses v. New Build

Demolishing old houses and building new adds to climate change

By Charles Clover, Environment Editor Daily Telegraph
Last Updated: 6:01pm GMT 17/03/2008

Demolishing tens of thousands of Victorian and Edwardian homes and building new ones is adding unnecessarily to climate change, researchers said today.

MPs condemn 'disastrous' pathfinder scheme

Pathfinder scheme to cost further £1bn

Use empty houses, Gordon Brown told

If the 288,000 long-term empty homes in England were used and upgraded to higher efficiency standards, instead of many of them being demolished under Government "Pathfinder" regeneration schemes, it would save the equivalent of three million cars being taken off the roads for a year.