Petition launched to scrap EPCs in UK which were imposed by EU directive

A Parliamentary petition has been launched in the UK to scrap energy performance certificates for residential properties now that the country has decided to leave the European Union. The certificates, known as EPCs, were introduced in 2007 after the Housing Act 2004 made it a mandatory requirement that an energy assessment is made on all properties listed for sale in Britain and later this applied to rental properties too. This was done to comply with a European Directive and EPCs were seen as b...