{"id":4906,"date":"2013-03-11T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=4906"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:09:07","slug":"pickles-faces-imminent-judicial-review-over-scrapped-efficiency-rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=4906","title":{"rendered":"Pickles faces imminent Judicial Review over Scrapped Efficiency Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Early March saw formal confirmation that the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) will be following through on its threat of judicial review against Mr Pickles. They have declared themselves strongly against his decision to scrap the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcConsequential Improvement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rules that were once a key part of the Green Deal and are keen to give them new life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Consequential Improvements was a policy that, in conjunction with finance provided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=4832\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Green Deal<\/span><\/a> (read more on the link), was aimed at obligating those who wished to extend their homes with the cost of upgrading the energy efficiency of the rest of the home, up to 10% of the value of the extension. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is a policy tha<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4907\" alt=\"Solar Installation on a new Build Property\" src=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9776-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9776-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9776-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>t has been raised and scrapped by Labour Governments twice before, and it was raised and scrapped again by the Coalition in December of last year on the grounds that, far from encouraging improvements, it would actually discourage homeowners from extending their houses at all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At that time, Pickles quoted figures from an Energy Savings Trust survey that revealed that 38% of homeowners would be put off undertaking home improvements by the requirements. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In reply to this decision, ACE Director Andrew Warren has said in a formal statement: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We want to see a speedy resolution of this matter, so that we can begin to see some of the benefits which Mr Pickles identified last year would accrue from implementing his original &#8220;consequential improvements&#8221; strategy, of \u00c2\u00a311bn savings to the economy, 130 million lifetime tonnes of carbon dioxide, and 2.2 million more households benefitting from the Green Deal,&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ACE and other groups subsequently accused Mr Pickles of both &#8220;distorting&#8221; the EST report, which actually reportedly revealed broad support for the proposals, and ignoring the 82% of consultation responses that were in favour of the regulations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bearing in mind the communications campaign has only just got underway for the rest of the Green Deal, we would add that the 38% will have also been artificially high at the time the survey was conducted, fuelled by people who knew nothing of the finance available from the Government for the obligatory improvements and expected to burden the cost alone [that is notwithstanding the detail of this finance which is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=4832\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">putting many prospective users off<\/span><\/a>]. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Claiming that Pickles has failed to accurately consider responses to the consultation, ACE has now served formal documents to the High Court with a view to overturning the Secretary of State&#8217;s decision and ultimately securing the reinstatement of Consequential Improvements. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pickles and the Department for Communities and Local Government reputedly stand by their decision and Pickles actually wrote to the ACE to shed some more light on the reasons behind it. Nonetheless, the ACE remains unmoved and the near future will undoubtedly see a real clash over Consequential Improvements. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For Pickles, the outcome could potentially be having to reinstate a media berated \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcconservatory tax\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 policy that he no longer believes in \u00e2\u20ac\u201c an embarrassment that the Coalition Government could no doubt do without.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">05\/03\/2013\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 SRJ\/LCB<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> [contact-form][contact-field label=&#8217;Email&#8217; type=&#8217;email&#8217; required=&#8217;1&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;I liked this article&#8217; type=&#8217;checkbox&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;I did not like this article&#8217; type=&#8217;checkbox&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;Comment&#8217; type=&#8217;textarea&#8217;\/][\/contact-form] <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early March saw formal confirmation that the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) will be following through on its threat of judicial review against Mr Pickles. They have declared themselves strongly against his decision to scrap the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcConsequential Improvement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rules that were once a key part of the Green Deal and are keen to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=4906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pickles faces imminent Judicial Review over Scrapped Efficiency Rules&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-4906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pickles faces imminent Judicial Review over Scrapped Efficiency Rules - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=4906\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pickles faces imminent Judicial Review over Scrapped Efficiency Rules - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Early March saw formal confirmation that the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) will be following through on its threat of judicial review against Mr Pickles. 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