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Healthy homes standard - a foundation for healthier and resilient communities
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Provides guidance and good practice for the design and delivery of new homes. Covers: Healthy Homes Standard, summary of core requirements, inclusivity, amenity, efficiency, comfort and control.
Document History
Last updated: 20 October 2025 - In the 'summary of core requirements' section c.5 upfront embodied carbon had been omitted. This has now been added. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-homes-standard/healthy-homes-standard-a-foundation-for-healthier-and-resilient-communities and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 17 October 2025.
Publisher Information
Homes England
Homes England is the government's housing accelerator, responsible for: increasing the number of new homes that are built in England; improving existing affordable homes and bringing empty homes back into use as affordable housing; increasing the supply of public land and speeding up the rate that it can be built on; and helping to stimulate local economic growth by using their land and investment, and attracting private sector investment in local areas. Formerly known as the Homes and Communities Agency and English Partnerships.
50 Victoria Street
Westminster
London
HENG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england
Email: enquiries@homesengland.gov.uk
Tel: 0300 1234 500
