Publication - Impact assessment

New Build Heat Standard (amended) 2024: island communities impact assessment

Published: 8 November 2024
Directorate: Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic: Building, planning and design, Energy, Environment and climate change, +1 more … Housing
ISBN: 9781836019862

Addition to the New Build Heat Standard 2024 – island and communities impact assessment . It is necessary to review this in conjunction with the fuller island communities impact assessment (ICIA) to ensure the context of earlier decision making and measures are fully understood.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 New Build Heat Standard 2024: island communities impact assessment - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2 Highlights - Scottish Islands Typology: overview 2024 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3 Air Source Heat Pump Size Guide - OVO Energy

4 Sustainability Evaluation of Scottish Islanded Mini-grids: Towards Asset Management Strategies for Remote Off-grid Energy Infrastructure (strath.ac.uk)

5 Small Islands Energy System Overview (hie.co.uk)

6 Eigg-woodland.pdf (reforestingscotland.org)

7 Zero emissions heating in new buildings across Scottish Islands (climatexchange.org.uk)

8 New Build Heat Standard 2024: island communities impact assessment - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

9 Fuel Poverty - Scottish islands: data overview 2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10 Fuel Poverty - Scottish House Condition Survey: 2022 Key Findings - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

11 Regional and Local Delivery - Supporting and enabling sustainable communities: action plan to address depopulation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

12 An existing process under building regulations where an applicant can write to Scottish Ministers for a Standard to be disapplied in circumstances where this cannot be feasibly applied

13 Once published, these reports will be available on the Environment pages of the local authorities’ websites.

14 Ecodesign 2022 - HETAS

15 Response 157553630 to Proposals for a Heat in Buildings Bill: Consultation - Scottish Government consultations - Citizen Space

16 Response 635987631 to Proposals for a Heat in Buildings Bill: Consultation - Scottish Government consultations - Citizen Space

17 Impact on people using peat for fuel and on island communities - Ending the sale of peat: consultation analysis - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

18 Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 (legislation.gov.uk)