'Enough staff' for HIPs go-ahead

'Enough staff' for HIPs go-ahead

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

There are now enough assessors for the introduction of Home Information Packs on 1 August, the government says...

More than 1,000 energy assessors and home inspectors have now been accredited, out of the 4,700 who have passed training exams.

The announcement came as the government laid out the framework for how the packs would be introduced.

HIPs were delayed from the original planned start of 1 June, and scaled back from applying to all home sales.

Instead, the August introduction will see them apply only to sales of homes with four or more bedrooms.

The government says about 2,000 accredited assessors and inspectors are needed before HIPs can also be applied to three-bedroom homes, with about 3,000 needed to cover the whole market.

Earlier, Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly had blamed the shortage of assessors on uncertainty about packs as a result of "misinformation" from opponents and a legal challenge.

Initially sellers will only have to have commissioned a pack, rather than have a completed one, before marketing their property.

Ministers have increasingly used the energy certificates to justify the packs, saying they would help to persuade people to make their homes more energy efficient and thus cut carbon emissions.

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