Comments on: Do trading standards have the teeth to police EPCs? http://housingdabble.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/do-trading-standards-have-the-teeth-to-police-epcs/ Property Marketing, Brand Building and Social Media Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:57:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: housingdabble http://housingdabble.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/do-trading-standards-have-the-teeth-to-police-epcs/#comment-7 housingdabble Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:35:05 +0000 http://housingdabble.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-7 Agree with your comments Peter - Perfect scenario would be for government to produce a list of all DEC's that still haven't been done, but can't see it happening. nher have just released a very interesting piece of research regarding the lack of policing and I have to agree with them that if the responsible person was the selling or letting agent as in the domestic market, then more commercial EPC's would be getting done. They show a non compliance rate of 81% which is staggering http://www.nher.co.uk/pages/about/nher_news.php Agree with your comments Peter – Perfect scenario would be for government to produce a list of all DEC’s that still haven’t been done, but can’t see it happening.

nher have just released a very interesting piece of research regarding the lack of policing and I have to agree with them that if the responsible person was the selling or letting agent as in the domestic market, then more commercial EPC’s would be getting done. They show a non compliance rate of 81% which is staggering

http://www.nher.co.uk/pages/about/nher_news.php

]]> By: Horizon HIPs and EPCs http://housingdabble.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/do-trading-standards-have-the-teeth-to-police-epcs/#comment-6 Horizon HIPs and EPCs Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:21:39 +0000 http://housingdabble.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-6 In my opinion the biggest problem that we have is that the very people that are employed to root out non compliance are employed within local authorities. These are amongst some of the biggest landlords and property owners in the UK. Huge numbers of them have complied with the legislation but it remains that many are still lagging behind. How do you get a local authority or the government to begin policing this legislation if they are only going to go an find themselves in breach of it on a massive scale? Its a real problem and its no wonder that the private sector is reluctant to pay out at all for these valuable documents if the public sector who should be leading by example is failing. What council is going to let the dog off the leash if it is only going to turn around and bite it self? In my opinion the biggest problem that we have is that the very people that are employed to root out non compliance are employed within local authorities. These are amongst some of the biggest landlords and property owners in the UK. Huge numbers of them have complied with the legislation but it remains that many are still lagging behind.

How do you get a local authority or the government to begin policing this legislation if they are only going to go an find themselves in breach of it on a massive scale? Its a real problem and its no wonder that the private sector is reluctant to pay out at all for these valuable documents if the public sector who should be leading by example is failing.

What council is going to let the dog off the leash if it is only going to turn around and bite it self?

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