Revamped EPC to be launched

estateagenttoday.co.uk - 20th April 2011

A revamped EPC is being worked by government advisers and is set to be implemented early next year.

The revamp will follow a raft of changes due to implemented in two stages, on July 1 and October 1.
If the October 1 proposed change goes through, it should mean agents not having ti print forests of extra pages as had been feared.

The October 1 proposal is that the full EPC - not just the ratings - will have to be printed and attached to all particular. However, all the associated recommendations will not have to be attached. This would mean that agents would have to add one more double sided A4 page to their particulars.
There is likely to be one crucial change. Denis purshouse, senior civil servant at CLG who advises on housing matters, said that for the purpose of EPCs attached to property particulars, the address of the property will not be included.