Lifetime home (LTH) revised criteria

Download or read book Lifetime home (LTH) revised criteria written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the Government published 'Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods: A National Strategy for Housing in an Ageing society'. This set out the need to build more flexible and inclusive housing in order to meet the future requirements of our ageing population. To encourage the development of more Lifetime Homes the government incorporated the standard into the Code for Sustainable Homes. Currently all housing built to level six of the code must comply with the Lifetime Homes Standard. Homes built to lower levels of the code can also obtain an additional four credits if they satisfy the Lifetime Homes criteria. The revisions to the Lifetime Homes criteria have been introduced to achieve a higher level of practicability for volume developers in meeting the requirements of the Code for Sustainable Homes.