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Quango tells Government to ban homes with low EPCs
Friday 14th August 2009Properties with poor Energy Performance Certificate ratings should be banned from the property market, according to the Energy Saving Trust.
It is calling on the Government to introduce a law that would ban properties with F and G ratings from being sold or rented out from 2015 onwards.
The quango, which employs 140 staff and costs £43m a year to run, was once slated as one of Britain’s most useless quangos, along with the likes of the British Potato Council.
A spokesperson said: “We believe grants, financing packages and advice should make it possible for everyone who wants to act to do so in the next few years.
“But the danger of climate change is so important that, for people who choose not to act between now and 2016, regulation has to be considered to drive action on the most energy inefficient homes.”
The spokesman did not explain how historic properties, such as Grade One and Two listed cottages and castles, could be upgraded to comply.
Nick Salmon, founder of SPLINTA, said: “If the EST had made this proposal with a timescale of decades rather than just five short years, it might have some credibility, but to advocate a ban on the sale and rental of low energy efficiency properties by 2015 is so ludicrous as to be laughable.
“SPLINTA has always held the view that eventually the Government would penalise owners of low energy efficiency property via increased Council Tax, but never envisaged anything as draconian as a ban on sales and rentals.
“It’s fortunate that there’s an election coming as this discredited and decaying government might just be daft enough to think the EST is right.”
EAT says: If you wish to speed up the process of climate change by creating more hot air and commenting in detail on this suggestion, by all means do so, but we would welcome evidence of any quango that is doing a useful job.
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Posted By Robert on Monday 24th August 2009 15:19:51
 Get Profile | I think that the Energy Savings Trust is on the right lines. Human caused climate change is the big challenge of our time; and urgent action is needed to conserve energy. My proposal is that every time a property comes up for sale there should be compulsory investment in energy conservation or insulation measures - there are few better or more needed ways of improving the housing stock. And home insulation improvements are usually best undertaken when the property is empty. |
Posted By CB on Friday 21st August 2009 11:08:53
Get Profile | No it won't happen because its just hearsay. Another opportunity for the media to get carried away and sell papers! |
Posted By David Force on Monday 17th August 2009 13:58:10
Get Profile | Well, the nanny state is well and truly here. And these quangos are run by complete goats. (With apologies to 4-legged goats everywhere who are actually extremely intelligent - unlike the waste of space who run these quangos)! And to think we pay to have this drivel thrust down our throats! |
Posted By Colinb on Friday 14th August 2009 19:59:38
See Profile or Message Colin Bailey | I think you are reading this comment the wrong way,if a Grade F is listed the subject would benefit from grants making it a good purchase just like the late 70s. Why all the doom and gloom, think out side the box!
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Posted By Paul walker on Friday 14th August 2009 19:33:37
Get Profile | David Worthigton
To insall a gas boiler in a property with no gas supply is, as you point, is out costly. The DEA has NOT conducted a correct survey! If no mains gas available...then the DEA should put that in his report! Then there would be no recommendation of a gas boiler!! The DEA is one of "our" "Cowboy's"!! Give me the details and I will report the DEA to his/her Accreditation Body for audit. energyinspector@aol.com Likewise...any problems with DEA's...PLEASE LET ME KNOW? Paul Walker DipDEA, MIDEA, MIPPA. NHER. |
Posted By Jolley Hockey Sticks on Friday 14th August 2009 15:40:44
Get Profile | So, let me get this straight. Poorly rated properties, refurbishments/renovations, homes owned by the elderly would not be able to be marketed under this shower's recommendation.... Mmm, that would be another massive blow to the UK property market, just what we all need. What idiots! Perhaps the government could introduce another scrappage scheme for homes this time, I wonder how much they'd contribute? |
Posted By Jo P on Friday 14th August 2009 15:09:14
Get Profile | How have we survived all of these hundreds of years with an F rated property!! There are other things to do to save the environment long before getting rid of low rated properties. |
Posted By David Worthigton on Friday 14th August 2009 14:57:35
Get Profile | We have marketed this month a flat with a G rating where the only improvement would be to install a gas condensing boiler, the suggested cost being £654.
Even if our clients were to carry out that installation it would still be a band G. What the assessor appears to have overlooked is that there is no gas in the property, or even the block. I cannot see Transco providing gas to the flat for free, so would the landlords be obliged to leave the property vacant but still pay 75% of the council tax (the proportion for vacant property in this part of rip-off Britain)??? The lunatics really have taken over the asylum. |
Posted By Wooden top on Friday 14th August 2009 14:24:46
Get Profile | Never laughed so much, thanks for making my day become a bit brighter. What a joke and what a waste of money, talking of which how much of the £43 million a year is waste paper, used up electricity, heat loss in their building etc costing the environment. Job for boys ... about time they were put up againgst a wall! How would one try and sell a property that needed renovation that an O.A.P couldn't keep up to standard with there non-existant government pension and taxes and taxes and taxes? Low energay lights, cavity wall and loft grants won't move you out of the G & F bands if it's a shed. |
Posted By PeeBee on Friday 14th August 2009 12:57:56
Get Profile | Pete... what are you smoking?? Or are you a fully paid-up member of The Energy Saving Trust Are A Real Nice Bunch Of People Who Do A Fantastic Job Fanclub. Or just a DEA... Get real and accept that this is not based upon "sound" principles as you so inaptly (ineptly) describe. It is ridiculous to the 'n'th degree, and shows exactly what we all know about these groups - they shouldn't be allowed out, or have sharp implements! |
Posted By Steve in Coventry on Friday 14th August 2009 12:15:14
Get Profile | we are marketing a grade II listed property which scored 1 for current and 1 for potential.
Are people that own such homes now going to be banned from moving house? We need a general election to get rid of this useless bunch of morons that caused the property crash ASAP!!! |
Posted By paul on Friday 14th August 2009 12:09:13
Get Profile | So in order to sell my grade I listed thatched cottage I would need to fit energy saving upvc replacement double glazed windows to up the EPC,my local listing officer would have a fit!!! |
Posted By James Neal on Friday 14th August 2009 12:08:12
Get Profile | ...and £43m could have been used to provide insulation to how many homes?! |
Posted By Peter McHugh on Friday 14th August 2009 11:22:16
Get Profile | Whatever next?
We have Gordon Brown and his deputy taking holidays at the same time and the country in the hands of unelected "Mandy" and now some equally unelected Quango is trying to tell us that we can't exercise freedom over our own freehold property that we've bought out of our own (taxed) income. And there was me believing we lived in a democracy! |
Posted By Ray Evans of Sheringham on Friday 14th August 2009 11:20:32
Get Profile | Low profile.
Your comment is silly and carries no weight at all. |
Posted By Low Profile on Friday 14th August 2009 11:11:54
Get Profile | Not everyone wants to be a celebrity, thats why! |
Posted By Ray Evans of Sheringham on Friday 14th August 2009 11:08:18
Get Profile | Yet another suggested nail in the coffin of freedom in this country!
Who is going to stand up to these useless idiots. Incidently, why don't people who post on this site use their full names? It would carry more weight and show more clearly who were the vested interests. |
Posted By Michael Osborn on Friday 14th August 2009 11:04:57
Get Profile | I suggest the formation of a brand new Quango called the Quango Protection Service to monitor the espenses of all the other quangos costing no more than £43 million per year to run. |
Posted By Jim on Friday 14th August 2009 10:51:51
Get Profile | "its just a matter of time until council tax is linked to the EPC" and they'll annouce it like they just thought of it. |
Posted By Lee Everitt on Friday 14th August 2009 10:50:03
Get Profile | How funny! haha, but i do think its just a matter of time until council tax is linked to the EPC. |
Posted By Mr Brightmove.co.uk on Friday 14th August 2009 10:49:06
Get Profile | Seriously, I think the Potato Council is doing a tremendous job. We all need to grow more vegetables. Now where did I leave those home grown carrots? As for houses with a low energy score, we scap our cars but not for free - how about a pound or two if we throw away our energy eficient less houses? |
Posted By pineapple man on Friday 14th August 2009 10:42:58
Get Profile | Total rubbish, who ever looks at EPC'S anyway?? |
Posted By Tom D on Friday 14th August 2009 10:38:31
Get Profile | Absolutely correct but only the same day as our fellow EU contries of Portugal,Italy, Greece, Spain and France adopt (haha) |
Posted By Horizon on Friday 14th August 2009 10:33:01
See Profile or Message Pete . | Whilst this might be a little draconian in its approach the idea behind it is sound. I see little or no excuse in a property rating an F or a G when all it would take is a little loft insulation to improve the rating.
The only issue is as I see it that energy assessors forced to cut costs so many cut corners. This results in doubts being cast over the accuracy of many EPCs to be an adequate tool for a job like this. Something like this will be introduced in the future regardless of which government is in power as the legislation that binds EPCs is Europe wide. Then you all might be a little more interested in what energy assessors get up to whether you like it or not ;) |
Posted By Mark on Friday 14th August 2009 10:15:09
Get Profile | Where do Labour find the Communist clowns. If they're that bothered about the impact of human activity on the environment then why don't they set us a good example by either: a. foregoing the trappings of modern life by setting up home in a cave somewhere and living off of dung, or b. killing themselves to reduce their carbon footprint. Losers!!! |
Posted By ace on Friday 14th August 2009 10:11:49
Get Profile | Complete madness, hopefully the government will realise it cannot continue to fund such organisations well before we get to 2015 |
Posted By Anna Key on Friday 14th August 2009 10:09:16
Get Profile | oops! We'd better move to Milton Keynes then. Looks like the World Heritage City of Bath is doomed! |
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