The heat and buildings strategy explained: what did it say – and was it worth the wait?

By Thomas Lane2021-10-27T05:00:00

Published last week and running to 200 pages, Thomas Lane dives deep into a government initiative that promised much but had delivered rather less

Earlier this year, reports suggested that people would be forced to rip out functioning gas boilers and replace them with expensive heat pumps. Instead, the heat and building strategy was launched last week with the promise of £5,000 grants to replace fossil fuel boilers with heat pumps.

And, without a hint of compulsion, Boris Johnson said: “The greenshirts of the boiler police are not going to kick in your door with their sandal-clad feet and seize, at carrot-point, your trusty old combi.”

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