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Public sector buildings should be made to connect to existing or planned community heat networks, according to a report to be published today by the UK Green 好色先生TV Council (UK-GBC) and the Zero Carbon Hub.

The joint task group on sustainable community infrastructure calls for public sector buildings to connect to existing or planned community heat networks, where available and viable, to provide an 鈥渁nchor load鈥� of demand. Large businesses should be encouraged to do the same.

Other key recommendations from the report include local authorities developing 鈥渟ustainability option plans鈥�, to identify opportunities to deliver joined-up sustainable community infrastructure and work in partnership with the private sector to supply this.

The group also says that the 鈥渁llowable solutions鈥� mechanism - whereby developers can invest in alternative solutions to meet the new zero-carbon buildings standard - should be used as a way to provide additional ring-fenced capital to support the delivery of heat infrastructure.

Paul King, chief executive UK-GBC, said: 鈥淥ur homes and buildings cannot be sustainable in isolation. In many cases it makes sense to join up delivery of infrastructure such as energy, water and waste at a community scale.

鈥淭here has been an assumption that consumers are instinctively against things like district heat or waste-to-energy plants, but our research suggests that is no longer the case.鈥�

He added that delivering sustainable community infrastructure, particularly district heating, is often still seen as expensive and high risk, which is why the public sector needs to play a key role to instil confidence and make schemes viable.