Love them or hate them there is no doubt that the Home Information Pack has, and continues to deliver an efficient mechanism for the delivery of the energy performance certificate.
In contrast to Northern Ireland where there is no HIP and one out of every two properties is marketed without an EPC, the majority of those selling and buying in this Country are all beginning to reap the benefits of having to hand upfront information on the energy efficiency performance of their homes.
Despite Grant Shapps best efforts as well as those who support his madness, there is no escaping the fact that the HIP has helped and continues to help consumers, as well as making a major contribution towards reducing carbon emissions.
And now we have the proof to question Mr Shapps’ ‘green’ credentials in the form of a report on the impact of the EPC as prodcued by the National Energy Saving Trust.
The headlines of the Report show:
• Implementing the recommendations in the EPC to bring homes up to their potential rating, would on average reduce each home’s CO2 emissions by 1.2 tonnes and cut its fuel bills by £182 a year.
• With more than one million homes changing hands in a typical year, there is the potential to reduce our annual CO2 emissions by some 1.36 million tonnes and reduce energy costs by £200 million in a single year.
• At least two thirds of the homebuyers the researchers spoke to (68%) had made some form of alteration to their new home in the last year – 39% of them making significant alterations and 29% opting just for cosmetic changes.
The full report can be found at http://bit.ly/4ERoKx and will clearly help strengthen the campaign to retain the HIP and to ensure it continues to be the primary delivery vehicle for the one of the most effective tools we have to hand to help reduce carbon emissions.
Despite Grant Shapps best efforts as well as those who support his madness, there is no escaping the fact that the HIP has helped and continues to help consumers, as well as making a major contribution towards reducing carbon emissions.
And now we have the proof to question Mr Shapps’ ‘green’ credentials in the form of a report on the impact of the EPC as prodcued by the National Energy Saving Trust.
The headlines of the Report show:
• Implementing the recommendations in the EPC to bring homes up to their potential rating, would on average reduce each home’s CO2 emissions by 1.2 tonnes and cut its fuel bills by £182 a year.
• With more than one million homes changing hands in a typical year, there is the potential to reduce our annual CO2 emissions by some 1.36 million tonnes and reduce energy costs by £200 million in a single year.
• At least two thirds of the homebuyers the researchers spoke to (68%) had made some form of alteration to their new home in the last year – 39% of them making significant alterations and 29% opting just for cosmetic changes.
The full report can be found at http://bit.ly/4ERoKx and will clearly help strengthen the campaign to retain the HIP and to ensure it continues to be the primary delivery vehicle for the one of the most effective tools we have to hand to help reduce carbon emissions.
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