Londoners are being short-changed by a scheme designed to encourage property developers to improve energy efficiency.
Nearly a third of London planning authorities have never collected any carbon offset payments from housing developers, despite having had the explicit powers to do so for seven years, DeSmog UK can reveal. And several planning authorities are failing to spend collected funds, totalling £1.6m.
Almost two-thirds of the authorities who have collected money have never spent any of it, despite the funds being ring-fenced for financing carbon reduction and fuel poverty measures in their boroughs.
