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By Roger Harrabin
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Appliances such as fridges, washing machines and TVs should last longer and be cheaper to run under new rules.
Ministers have confirmed that from the summer consumers will have a right to repair on goods they buy.
They are keeping a promise to implement EU rules aimed at cutting energy and bills – and reducing the need for new materials.
Manufacturers will be legally obliged to make spare parts for products available to consumers for the first time – a new legal right for repairs.
The aim of the new rules is to extend the lifespan of products by up to 10 years, and officials estimate that higher energy efficiency standards will save consumers an average of £75 a year on bills over their lifetimes.
Environmentally, retrofit makes sense and for designers there is so much opportunity
Weston Adventure Playground. Macintosh says: ‘Internally there is a mezzanine level with a bench running all the way along the main space, where the children who were less rumbustious or more reflective could retreat and do their homework in a more secluded area.’
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Done judiciously and sensitively, retrofit is one of the biggest contributions the construction sector can make to help reduce embodied carbon, writes
Emily Booth
The picture of a child hurtling through the air, hair flying, on a zip wire at Finch Macintosh’s Weston Adventure Playground encapsulates the pure joy that a wonderful experience of a place can bring – plus the freedom that we probably all wish we had more of right now. Kate Macintosh, winner of this year’s Jane Drew Prize, has always put community at the heart of her work and embraced issues of environmental and social sustainability.
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