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How many more U-turns and delays on policy can the government get away with? So far this year we've had U-turns on the inclusion of residential property in Sipps and on changes to the filing date for self-assessment forms, a partial U-turn on the treatment of trusts families use to protect money that will eventually go to their children, and a delay in the introduction of the tenants' deposit protection scheme. |
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Home information packs: The survey is optional but all house sellers must pay up to £400 for details such as an energy check, writes Patrick Collinson. The front page headline on one tabloid newspaper this week screamed "Home sales pack scheme scrapped". But the headlines are nonsense. The scheme has not been scrapped. The single biggest element, the mandatory survey, has been abandoned, but anyone putting their property on the market after June 2007 will still have to prepare a seller's pack, and stump up around £400 for the privilege. |
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Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning, Michael Gove, has called on the Government to abandon its ill-fated Home Information Pack scheme, after ministers decided to postpone a key element of the controversial plan.
When Housing Minister Yvette Cooper announced that the Home Condition Report element would not be introduced as planned next June - and delayed until some future undefined date - Mr Gove declared: "The Government should abandon the whole scheme and consult afresh, rather than move ahead with a vanity project to save ministers' faces." |
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Companies in the property industry were today counting the cost of the government's U-turn on home information packs.
Dismayed mortgage lenders, estate agents and home pack providers have collectively spent an estimated £225m on preparations for the introduction of the packs in June next year. An estimated 4,400 people have also trained as inspectors to carry out the report, at a cost of £7,000 each. |
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he Conservatives have accused the government of a "U-turn" over its plans to delay the introduction of part of its flagship house sale packs.
Housing Minister Yvette Cooper says the survey element of the packs needed further testing and will not come into force in June 2007 as planned.
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THE housing market has been warming up very nicely, but next year it could be disrupted by the advent of home information packs, or Hips.
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The controversial home information pack scheme is in crisis because only 232 people have been trained to produce them - just three per cent of the thousands of inspectors the Government says are needed.
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