Closing date for applications is Monday 21st October.
Selection panel for shortlisted applicants is 11th and 14th November.
Successful applicants are expected to commit to one meeting per month for one year. (The Panel may continue beyond that)
The Community Review Panel will play an independent, advisory role in Dacorum’s planning work, discussing issues including housing, transport, public and green spaces, and the environment.
Tring First Book Festival
A resilience issue is that Ben and Sandra are organising Tring’s first Book Festival. This runs November 8th to 17th with a star-studded cast of speakers and other events.
Check out https://www.tringbookfestival.co.uk/
To buy tickets click “Events & Tickets” on the home page, then click on photo of event of interest, scrolling down the page to seat buying section.
New Bookshop in Tring Now Open
Have you been there? It's a great bookshop, with excellent stock. They've already sold several copies of Greta Thunberg's book.
Not been yet? Why not give it a try.
Bought a book?
Not in stock? I ordered one and it came through very quickly.
Future Homes Standard
Government Consultation
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-homes-standard-changes-to-part-l-and-part-f-of-the-building-regulations-for-new-dwellings
“This consultation sets out our plans for the Future Homes Standard, including proposed options to increase the energy efficiency requirements for new homes in 2020. The Future Homes Standard will require new build homes to be future-proofed with low carbon heating and world-leading levels of energy efficiency; it will be introduced by 2025.
This document is the first stage of a two-part consultation about proposed changes to the Building Regulations. It also covers the wider impacts of Part L for new homes, including changes to Part F (ventilation), its associated Approved Document guidance, airtightness and improving as-built performance of the constructed home.”
Consultation closes on 10th January 2020.
There are a few of things about this. First, this is the same Government that scrapped the Zero Carbon Homes Standard. Second, it’s likely that there will be push back from the more traditional parts of the house building industry. Thirdly, the phrase “world-leading levels of energy efficiency”. I wonder what the chances are of that being reality on a scale of 0 – 10 when compared with Scandinavian and Canadian levels of house energy efficiency....
I’ll be aiming to have read the document before the November Newsletter appears. In the meantime it should be noted that some local authorities are at loggerheads with Government, as the Government is proposing to prohibit local authorities imposing higher levels of energy efficiency in new homes than the national standard. If that happens, it will tie DBC’s hands.
