On Tuesday 10th April, Tim gave a presentation at the 2018 meeting of the American Associati9n of Geographers looking at the energy performance of new housing developments in the UK.
The presentation clearly exposes the issue that whilst we are improving the electricity and gas consumption of new housing, the new developments appear to be significantly driving up car use.
Chatterton, T. (2018) Sustainable developments? Assessing the direct energy (building and vehicles) consumption of new housing developments in the United Kingdom using social and structural benchmarking. In: American Association of Geography Annual Meeting 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, 9-14 April 2018. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35704/1/Tim%20Chatterton%20-%20AAG2018%20Sustainable%20Developments%20%28Circulation%29.pdf
