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	<description>EPC and HIP experts to the Bristol region, we are the professionals choice take the time to find out why.</description>
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		<title>Why HIPs were born with a limp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the general election, we may end up with a government that aims to abolish Home Information Packs (HIPs). Now,  you might not expect a leading HIP provider in Bristol to say this, but… killing off the HIP might be the kindest move in the circumstances. They were born with a limp that they’ve never had the chance to shake off. Here's why HIPs were an experiment half-throttled at birth…]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2010/05/why-hips-were-born-with-a-limp/</link>
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		<title>Could abolishing HIPs stall the housing market recovery?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party manifesto promises to abolish HIPs (Home Information Packs) — but will this really be a vote-winner? What have most people, including politicians, not realised about HIPs? And could this harm, not help, the housing market?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2010/04/conservatives-hips-bristolhome-information-packs-housing-market/</link>
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		<title>Our £99 HIPs are Bristol&#039;s best value Home Information Pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bristol's lowest priced and best value Home Information Pack combines a £99 HIP with a speedy and efficient conveyancing service to help you get your property on the market for less.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2010/04/our-99-hips-are-bristols-best-value-home-information-pack/</link>
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		<title>Want lower commercial building running costs? Look what&#039;s on the Horizon…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Horizon House, the Environment Agency's new corporate office in Bristol, was recently awarded the highest ever BREEAM score for an office in the UK. It perfectly illustrates a big win for the building's occupiers: a 10% saving in running costs due to being in a sustainable office building. Until you can occupy a building like that, there are other money-saving suggestions you can implement from a commercial EPC.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2010/03/horizon-house-gets-energy-sustainability-award/</link>
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		<title>Pay As You Save: great idea, with one big flaw…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the Government's Pay As You Save scheme gets through parliament, it could help fund the massive energy efficient home improvements UK homes will need in order to achieve lower CO2 emissions. However, cutting independent EPC assessors out of the process could be a major blunder — particularly if we end up with salespeople in their place…]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2010/03/pay-as-you-save-great-idea-but-one-big-mistake/</link>
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		<title>Get paid to produce your own energy! UK feed-in tariffs on the way…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Renewables just got a lot more interesting.
From April this year, a scheme will be launched that encourages British homes and small businesses to generate renewable electricity by paying you to produce it.
That means paying you for every unit you produce, up to 5 MWh a year — even what you use yourself.
It makes £0 energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2010/02/get-paid-to-produce-your-own-energy-uk-feed-in-tariffs-on-the-way%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Commercial EPC compliance: time to get serious!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commercial EPC compliance is amazingly low, as shown by NHER research — most agents simply don't realise the buck stops with them. Now, fast-track changes to the EPBD threaten fines worth avoiding and Trading Standards scrutiny you'd be better off without. At least there's more than twenty seconds to comply…]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2010/01/commercial-epc-compliance-time-to-get-serious/</link>
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		<title>Boiler scrappage scheme: brilliant, or flawed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Energy Saving Trust kicks off 2010 by rolling out the Boiler Scrappage Scheme announced in the pre-budget report. It aims to improve Britain's energy efficiency, to save people's energy bills, and boost the gas fitting and boiler manufacturing industries. Three birds—one stone.

The scheme is not perfect, though: it missed a chance to make better use of EPC assessors, and it could even be open to a touch of abuse.  All in all, is the Boiler Scrappage Scheme brilliant or flawed?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2010/01/boiler-scrappage-scheme-brilliant-or-flawed/</link>
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		<title>Early Christmas present for residents of Bristol tower block</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How&#8217;s this for an unexpected Christmas present: lower heating bills for life?
That&#8217;s what residents of Rawnsley House in Bristol are getting. The entire block of flats is being clad with heat-saving solid wall insulation – and it&#8217;s arriving just in time for the coldest months of the year. Our EPC show how valuable this Christmas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2009/12/early-christmas-present-for-residents-of-bristol-tower-block/</link>
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		<title>What Copenhagen delegates could learn from the Danes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the 98 world leaders were to get to the Danish capital a few days early and have a nose around their host country, they'd pick up a large number of clues as to what they could be doing already to cut CO². Here's my rundown of five "Danish Lessons" our Copenhagen delegates could learn from the the country hosting the summit.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizon-home-information.co.uk/blog/2009/12/what-copenhagen-delegates-could-learn-from-the-danes/</link>
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