Comments on: Grants Shapps – Strong Foundations or Weak Understanding?

By: Conservative Home Information Pack policy to stall property market?

Conservative Home Information Pack policy to stall property market? — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:33:46 +0000

[...] We have tried to get an answer to what Grant Shapps proposes via numerous routes, including email, letter, comments on the Conservatives blog and even twitter (@grantshapps) but alas have failed. [...]

By: Number of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) produced

Number of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) produced — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:48:56 +0000

[...] It does question his understanding of the regulations and processes surrounding HIPs and EPCs again, similar to in a past article Grants Shapps – Strong Foundations or Weak Understanding? [...]

By: David Kirkman

David Kirkman — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:23:58 +0000

And I understand from the Green Paper that the tories favour colluding with the major utilities as providers of EPCs to “increase competition” without recognizing that their priority will be to increase product sales not to reduce carbon.Is Shapps aware of the impact on EPC prices already through massive overprovision of DEAs. In his main speech Cameron told us that the tories would stand behind small businesses. Fat chance for the independent, and already politically abused, DEA.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:37:17 +0000

TBH he does not care or want to understand, he justs sees it as a vote winner. The past decade has seen the price of a home go threw the roof, yet the seller still hates the fact that they have to pay for a HIP. The seller too does not want to know or understand the HIP. The Labour GOV have failed to educate the public let alone a Tory toff who should now what he is talking about.

By: ian b

ian b — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:48:49 +0000

agree with much of this but think it is a little harsh to criticise the gordon brown/number 10 line. He was obviously just scoring a point with a cheap joke. Bet the tory crowd loved it.