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It is completely inconsistent to on the one hand promise to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and at the same time to allow an unlimited number of conservatories to built.
To many people a conservatory is a cheap way to increase the living area of their home, living areas need to warm in winter, conservatories are very good at loosing heat.
It won't be Cameron and chums having to fulfill the promise. Even if Tories were in office at that time, it wd be like the present lot now having to be bound by or take the blame for decisions and actions of the Thatcher era. They can promise whatever they like, at that distance - unless enforceable by commitment to a superior power i.e. EC.
Would that not mean that the owners will use an electric heater in them. Though an electric heater when needed may be better than gas heating it when not needed.
I thought that by definition a conservatory had to be unheated or at least NOT connected to the house heating system and separated from the house by exterior grade doors. I may be wrong though.
I suppose that once the householder sees their heating bills rocket as they heat the night sky then market forces will make them switch it off. I hate conservatories too, tony, they overheat during the day and cool too quickly at night. If you want to have extra living space and not just a place for plants, then far better to have a solid insulated roofed "sun room" perhaps with some rooflights instead.
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