Social housing net zero standard consultation: interim equality impact assessment

Footnotes

1. Equality Act 2010 - Section 149

2. Equality Act 2010 - Section 4

3. Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing Review Group: terms of reference

4. Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 - Section 1A

5. ‘Polluting heating systems’ refer to heating systems which burn fossil fuels like gas boilers, oil boilers and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) boilers and bioenergy heating systems (e.g. those which use wood chips or other types of biomass or bioliquid (such as hydrotreated vegetable oil) also produce emissions when used to heat our homes – although there will be circumstances where these remain permissible).

6. Scottish Household Survey: 2019 Annual Report

7. Interim Gypsy/Traveller site design guide

8. Scottish household survey 2019: key findings

9. “Bioenergy” heating systems, e.g. those which use wood chips or other types of biomass or bioliquid (such as hydrotreated vegetable oil) also produce emissions when used to heat our homes – although there will be circumstances where these remain permissible.

10. Scottish House Condition Survey: Key Finding 2019, table 5

11. Scottish house condition survey: 2019 key findings

12. Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing Review - Gypsy / Traveller Sites subgroup minutes: December 2022

13. 2021 SHCS statistics were published in May 2023 at Scottish House Condition Survey: 2021 Key Findings, however these results should not be compared with those for previous or future years owing to methodological limitations arising from data collection constraints at the time. The SHCS returned to the usual approach in April 2022. The fieldwork has been completed and we expect to publish the results as National Statistics in January 2024.