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Inside the 'zero carbon' future home

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One of the UK's leading housebuilders, Miller Homes, claims to have built a zero carbon house as part of the effort to combat climate change.

Zero carbon means no emissions of the global warming gas, carbon dioxide.

Over the next few years the rules on how green homes have to be are going to become gradually tougher. And there are warnings that they will push up the cost of buying a new home.

Simon Gompertz managed to get a sneak preview at the development in Basingstoke in Hampshire.

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