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Posts in 2025
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Permitted Development (England) and noise assessment (UK)
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Today, 29 May 2025, amendments to The Town and County Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 have become part of planning law. To support these changes, there is a new, more complex, version of the …
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Half of UK homes need to have heat pumps by 2040
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Heat pumps are in the UK mainstream news today as the country’s independent climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), present their new pathway to a decarbonised UK . The CCC’s pathway sets out a model to reduce …
Posts in 2024
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F-gas scheme charge proposal
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The Environment Agency (EA) has announced a consultation on a proposal to charge users in order to meet the costs of administering the F-gas scheme. It would like to introduce the charges in April 2025. Up until now the cost of these services …
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Majority of homes are suitable for ASHPs
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Nesta is a British foundation, registered as a charity, which supports innovation. Their initial research into the kinds of heating technologies that are suitable for neighbourhoods across England and Wales shows that ‘… …
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More F-gas fines - including some big names
Saturday, August 17, 2024
On the 16 August, the Environment Agency released details of the £2.2 million civil penalties it has issued for F-gas regulation infringements over the period of February 2023 and August 2024. These included 11 fines totalling over £1m to an …
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Small business scams
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
As part of being a small business, receiving calls and tests from companies saying they can ‘boost’ your business is par for the course. You simply have to do the analysis and decide if you’re interested. It’s usually a …
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British Gas cheap heat pump tariff - is there a catch?
Friday, May 17, 2024
There’s quite a lot of ’noise’ in the industry news about British Gas introducing a heat pump electricity tariff at just 14p/kWh. At Checkmark we were quite excited - with a 4:1 efficiency on a heat pump that would bring the …
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Update to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme
Wednesday, May 08, 2024
The changes the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero announced to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme in March 2024 have come into effect today, 8 May 2024. The changes include: Homeowners will no longer have to install cavity wall or loft …
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Can heat pumps only be installed by an MCS approved installer?
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Legislation has changed since this post On 29 May 2025, new rules on planning came into effect, and some information detailed below has changed. Look out for updated information on this blog soon. This post isn’t about Checkmark’s core …
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Heat pumps with up to A+++ energy rating
Thursday, March 07, 2024
Swedish company FläktGroup has announced a new heat pump range which has a SCOP of up to 4.76. That’s incredibly efficient - 4.76kW of heat for 1kW of electricity. FläktGroup’s FGAH-AH models are reversible air-to-water heat …