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Insulation Can Help Houses Meet UK Energy Efficiency Targets

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Feb 3 2006

Plans to change the UK house selling and buying process could help to meet energy efficiency targets.

New legislation is set to introduce the concept of Home Information Packs to the UK property market in 2007 in an attempt to simplify the process as well as ensuring greater sustainability.

The changes means that every domestic freehold property or domestic building with more than 21 years left on the lease will be required to include an energy efficiency statement or "Home Energy Report". The new system will operate in the same way to the current method of rating electrical white goods.

A report by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister said: "The current home buying and selling process is slow, wasteful, stressful and causes far too much delay and failure."

"Installing better insulation, more thermally efficient appliances and so on will be required if the property is assessed as below the modern energy efficiency standards."

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