Poor building standards add £1,000 to energy bills of new homes, analysis finds

About 5bn more spent than if rules for low-carbon new-builds had not been scrapped in 2016, ECIU thinktank finds

People living in newly built homes are being hit with energy bills that are nearly 1,000 a year higher than need be because of the poor standards to which they have been constructed.

Occupants of homes built in the past seven years have paid about 5bn more in energy bills than they would have if regulations requiring new homes to be low-carbon had not been scrapped in 2016, according to analysis seen by the Guardian.