{"id":1519,"date":"2009-11-13T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2021-06-02T17:40:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:40:38","slug":"non-hip-compliant-local-authority-searches-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/non-hip-compliant-local-authority-searches-123\/","title":{"rendered":"Non HIP Compliant Local Authority Searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The following statement has been made and supplied to us by IPSA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>IPSA is in receipt of a number of Local Authority Searches compiled and sold by the following Local Authorities and Water Companies to consumers which contain elements which are not HIP compliant under Schedule 6 of the Home Information Pack Regulations. Members producing HIPs should not include searches in a HIP, from any supplier named on the following list:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wakefield<br \/>\nLeeds<br \/>\nHambleton<br \/>\nWirral<br \/>\nWiltshire<br \/>\nCheshire West and Chester<br \/>\nNorth West Leicestershire<br \/>\nBirmingham<br \/>\nLeicester<br \/>\nBrent<br \/>\nWarwick<br \/>\nCoventry<br \/>\nRedbridge<br \/>\nHarrow<br \/>\nKnowsley<br \/>\nGreenwich<br \/>\nKensington &amp; Chelsea<br \/>\nWelsh Water<\/p>\n<p>Each of the Local Authorities has also received a Freedom of Information request.<\/p>\n<p>The requests are all the same.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHow many searches have been completed since the introduction of the Home Information Pack regulations to the date of this request?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The figures plus the <a title=\"uninsured figures from yesterday\u2019s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/ipsa-non-compliant-local-authority-searches-survey-123\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uninsured figures from yesterday\u2019s<\/a> release will start to give a clearer picture of how little the consumer has been protected.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>IPSA members comply with the law and conduct business activities inline with our strong code of ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For our members\u2019 clients the IPSA Code logo delivers piece of mind.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We will be following this development closely and will update you as and when we receive more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,286,11,52],"tags":[284,268,628,266,265],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-information-packs","category-local-authority-searches","category-news","category-property-conveyancing","tag-association-of-independent-personal-search-agents","tag-ipsa","tag-local-authority-searches","tag-personal-search-industry","tag-personal-searches"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hip-consultant.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}