Trading standards and HIPs enforcement

HIPs and EPC enforcement descends into legal farce.
Here is how Local authority trading standards officers will try to enforce the £700 home information pack regulations. In the Civil courts [not magistrates courts]
 
To be exempt from Hips and the EPC, you must market your home as for eg, 4 rooms upstairs plus bathroom & en-suite ect, or 3 bedrooms plus study . See post, Yvette Cooper [...]

HIPs pack providers closing

 With the all the advice we have given in relation to the despised Home information packs, Hips pack providers are starting to close down.
Under planning law, it is about whether rooms are habitable, not whether they are bedrooms or not. So HIPs regulations can be avoided on any size of home by using Rooms..
HIps can [...]

Domestic energy assessors over supply

According to new figures released today by Communities and Local Government (CLG), there are now 1,340 accredited energy assessors ready to conduct energy performance certificates (EPCs).
The EPC for you the home seller, is only needed on 4 bedroom and larger homes from August.  Do not take out an EPc if you need one, until just before exchange [...]