UK government scraps plan to ban sale of gas boilers by 2035

'Future homes standard' will not mandate replacing boilers with environmentally friendly alternativeThe government is to scrap the 2035 ban on gas boilers in its new housebuilding standards.The previous Conservative government had laid plans to phase out gas heating for homes by banning the sale of new gas boilers by 2035, so people replacing their gas boilers after that date would instead have to buy a heat pump or other environmentally friendly way of heating homes. Continue reading...