Ed Sirett wrote:

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:30:22 +0000, John Rumm wrote:

And the April they are adding Part G and F the precise details I am not
yet aware of.

All I could find was the broad scope of water conservation and ventilation
respectively.

The first has nothing to do with safety under any warped way of looking at
it. The second really is only safety related in the event of gas burning
appliances that source air from indoors. Unless you delight in a house so
airtight you could suffocate, in which case...

I think, that as stupid/evil as the government may be thought to be, most of
this crap is directly resulting from falling in with the EU. Thatcher (as
much as I didn't like her policies on the whole) would have at least told
them to stuff it up their derrierres.

TB, President of the UK and former rotating President of the Solar System
was too keen to be the man of Europe and caved in to all this pointless
crap.

Part P is, IIRRC, traceable to a specific EU directive. Part L and G almost
certainly. HiP too (they *want* that energy cert on every dwelling, the
rest is a smokescreen).


It has been abundantly obvious to me and others (on a Part-P course this
week) that Part Prescot has nothing to do with safety but everything to do
with shutting down small businesses (making the environment uneconomic for
them to operate in).

The icing on the cake. None of the sole traders I have any contact with will
ever employ anyone. The bloke over the road from me does a lot of small
business accounts in the village, and he openly advises many of the one-man
bands not to take on a mate as it's more trouble than it's worth in his
opinion, with regard to costs and paperwork.


If safety/quality was an issue.

1) Make all standards clear simple and available free of charge. Currently
the required 'how-to' docs are spread throughout a range of documents some
free and some prohibitively expensive.

2) Apply resources to track down bad practice rather than regulate those
doing best practice.

3) Punish bad practice with compulsory training and then apply sanctions
if they still don't "get the plot".

Absolutely agree. Too sensible though.

Tim