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	<title>Helping Innovate Property (HIP) - Blog, Housing Market News and Articles &#187; Local Authority Searches</title>
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		<title>What Can I Do About My Neighbour&#8217;s Nuisance Tree?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trees can be wonderful though they can also be a terrible nuisance in gardens, particularly small gardens and particularly if they are allowed to grow too large. If your enjoyment of your property is adversely affected by a tree belonging to a neighbour, is there anything you can do? Your options depend on a few [...]


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		<title>Changes to Adoption of Private Drains and Sewers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is some mixed news for home owners this week. New regulations, made under powers granted by the Water Act 2003, are being considered by Parliament which if approved will mean that any stretches of private sewer or drain which are shared with another property will be automatically adopted by the relevant water authority for [...]


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		<title>When Building Regulations Approval Has Not Been Obtained</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/building-regulations-approval-not-obtained-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/building-regulations-approval-not-obtained-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Local Authority Searches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building regulations are designed to ensure that building works are done to set standards of safety and energy efficiency. The framework for the law is set out in the Building Act 1984. This statute allows regulations to be made as and when necessary to update the law and there have been several editions since the [...]


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		<title>Obtaining Conveyancing Searches</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/obtaining-conveyancing-property-searches-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/obtaining-conveyancing-property-searches-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HIP-Consultant.co.uk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Authority Searches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drainage & water search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few years obtaining the conveyancing searches has been the responsibility of the home information pack provider since the major ones, the local authority search and drainage &#38; water search, were a compulsory part of it. Now that HIPs have been suspended the searches must be obtained by the purchaser (or his conveyancer). [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/have-personal-local-authority-search-companies-improved-123/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Have Personal Local Authority Searches Improved?'>Have Personal Local Authority Searches Improved?</a></li>
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		<title>How to kill an entrepreneur</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/how-to-kill-an-entrepreneur-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/how-to-kill-an-entrepreneur-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 07:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Home Information Packs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Authority Searches]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/?p=2512</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1999 a father and son were so frustrated with the delays from local councils in providing local searches to enable them to buy a house they went to the council and searched the records to produce their own search. Realising there was a business potential there the father and son contact a couple of [...]


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		<title>Details of Non-Compliant Local Authority Searches to be removed</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/details-of-non-compliant-local-authority-searches-to-be-removed-by-ipsa-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/details-of-non-compliant-local-authority-searches-to-be-removed-by-ipsa-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Home Information Packs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) have indicated that later today they will remove the non-Home Information Pack compliant Local Authority list from its public web site. Steve Davies, IPSA CEO commented; “IPSA has been granted a meeting with Communities and Local Government (CLG) to discuss amongst other industry matters the existing guidance [...]


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		<title>Property Codes Compliance Board independent assessment results</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/property-codes-compliance-board-independent-assessment-results-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/property-codes-compliance-board-independent-assessment-results-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) has welcomed the findings of the Property Codes Compliance Board (PCCB) independent assessment into personal searches, but issued a warning to property professionals. IPSA have stated; &#8220;The PCCB investigation, which materialised from complaints made by those with a vested interest in undermining the private search industry, has [...]


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		<title>Non HIP Compliant Local Authority Searches</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/non-hip-compliant-local-authority-searches-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/non-hip-compliant-local-authority-searches-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IPSA have today released a list of Local Authorities that they are advising members NOT to buy official searches from, to ensure Home Information Pack compliance. The following statement has been made and supplied to us by IPSA: IPSA is in receipt of a number of Local Authority Searches compiled and sold by the following [...]


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		<title>Search Agents massive bad debt burden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) has today completed a partial survey of its members in relation to their combined burden of bad debt. The survey has revealed the amount IPSA members have written-off since the introduction of Home Information Packs due to non-payment, liquidation, alleged fraudulent trading and improper business conduct. Christian [...]


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		<title>IPSA non-compliant Local Authority Searches survey</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/ipsa-non-compliant-local-authority-searches-survey-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) has today completed a survey of Local Authorities it accuses of producing searches that are not HIP compliant. Christian Lister, IPSA Chairman and Steve Davies IPSA CEO have both highlighted the problem of non-compliance and the risk to consumers to the relevant industry authorities. Christian outlined the [...]


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