The government has been criticised for under-funding the Low Carbon Building Programme. Over the next three years, £30m is being made available to support the LCPB initiative, which will take over from the Clear Skies and Major Photovoltaics Demonstrations programmes that ends in March 2006.

“The funding is welcome, but represents £13m less than that spent on the Clear Skies and Major PV Demonstration programme since 2002,” said Dave Hampton, sustainability spokesman for the Chartered Institute of Building and director of Carbon Coach. The CIOB is disappointed after two energy white papers promised long-term funding for PVs and other renewable technologies.

It is proposed that the LCPB programme will run for six years, funding both single installations and large scale developments in the public and private sectors.

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