RICS submissions to Government and independent consultations and Committee inquiries:  
Please see below for the most recent submissions.

April 2008

• CLG: Draft CLG guidance on Display Energy Certificates
• The ‘Mining Waste Directive’

March 2008

• CLG: Energy Performance Certificates for Privately Marketed Dwellings
• CLG: Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Development
• Matthew Taylor Review on the Rural Economy and Affordable Housing

February 2008

• HMRC: Leased Plant and Machinery: Anti-avoidance – Technical Note
• HMT: Payable Enhanced Capital Allowance Consultation - Technical Note
• HMT: Business Tax Reform: Capital Allowance Changes Consultation - Technical Note
• Tribunals Service: Transforming Tribunals
• HMT: Stamp Duty Land Tax: Ensuring Fairness for All
• HMT: Tax Incentives for Development of Brownfield Land: A Consultation Response
• HMT: Property Authorised Investment Funds: Next Steps

January 2008

• Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution : Adapting the UK to Climate Change

December 2007

• CLG: Building Better Incentives for Local Economic Growth: Reforms to the Local Authority Business Growth Incentives scheme

November 2007

• BERR: Draft Strategy for Sustainable Construction
• Law Commission: Insurance Contract Law: Misrepresentation, Non-disclosure and Breach of Warranty by the Insured

October 2007

• CLG: The Future of the Code for Sustainable Homes
• DWP: Changes to Legislation Governing Health and Safety in Great Britain
• CLG: A Guide to Energy Certificates and Air Conditioning Inspections for Buildings
• Defra: Consultation on Proposed EU Soil Framework Directive and Initial Regulatory Impact Assessment
• CLG: Overriding Easements and Other Rights
• CLG: Local Loop Unbundling Rating
• HMRC: VAT: Draft legislation for a New Schedule 10 to the 1994 VAT Act
• HMT: Business Tax Reform: Capital Allowance Changes
• CLG: Modernising Empty Property Relief

September 2007

• HMT: Planning-Gain Supplement
• HMT: Property Authorised Investment Funds
• HMT: Pre-Budget Report
• Defra: Consultation on Proposals to Improve Access to the English Coast
• BERR: Improving Payment Practices in the Construction Industry – 2nd Consultation
• CLG: Tenant Empowerment
• CLG: Delivering Housing and Regeneration: Communities England and the Future of Social Housing Regulation

August 2007

• OFT: Housebuilding – Reasons for a Market Study
• CLG: Improving the Appeal Process in the Planning System: Making it Proportionate, Customer Focused, Efficient and Well Resourced
• CLG: Planning Fees in England: Proposals for Change
• CLG: Changes to Permitted Development: Permitted Development Rights for Householders
• CLG: Planning for a Sustainable Future - White Paper

July 2007

• CLG: Response to the Housing Green Paper
• HMRC: SDLT Relief for Carbon Zero Homes
• CLG: Local Authority Searches - Delivering Property Searches

June 2007

• Defra: Consultation on the Draft Rural Development Programme for England 2007-2013
• CLG: Local Authority Register of Building Control Information
• Transport Committee: Draft Local Transport Bill
• Defra: Climate Change Bill
• Communities and Local Government Committee: CLG Supplementary Business Rates Inquiry
• DCMS: Heritage White Paper
• Defra: Consultation on the Marine Bill White Paper
• HMT: Tax Incentives for Development of Brownfield Land

May 2007

• English Heritage: Conservation Principles Policies and Guidance
• Trade and Industry Committee: The UK Construction Industry
• CLG: Landlord and Tenant Act 1954: Section 57
• Land Registry: E-Conveyancing

April 2007

• Callcutt Review of Housebuilding Delivery
• VOA: Revaluation 2010 Publication of Information in Support of Rateable Values
• Defra: Transposition of Council Directive 2002/99 on Meat Hygiene
• Defra: Consultation on the Protection Of Common Land in England (The Commons Act 2006)

March 2007

• Law Commission: Consolidation of Legislation Relating to Non-Domestic Rating and Council Tax in England and Wales
• CLG: Building a Greener Future: Towards Zero Carbon Development
• CLG: The Role of City Development Companies in English Cities and City-Regions
• All Party Urban Development Group: Bringing Business and Development to Deprived Areas

February 2007

• CLG: Council Tax Consultation on Appeals Direct for Council Tax
• VOA: Revaluation 2010: Prior Agreement - VOA Discussion Paper
• TfL: Scheme Order for Greater London Low Emission Zone
• HMRC: Paying PGS – A Planning Gain Supplement Consultation

January 2007

• DTI: Updating the Electricity Generating Stations and Overhead Lines Enquiry Procedure Rules in England and Wales (an Energy Review Consultation)
• HMRC: Valuing Planning Gain: A Planning Gain Supplement Consultation
• CLG: Lyons Inquiry into Local Government - Promoting Economic Prosperity: Considering the Implications of Eddington, Barker and Leitch.
• CLG: Planning Policy Statement: Planning and Climate Change
• Defra: Measures to Reduce Carbon Emissions in the Large Non-Energy Intensive Business and Public Bodies
• FSA: Investment in Land via Unit Linked Life Funds
• Defra: Environmental Liability Directive (Consultation document on implementing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
• CLG: Changes to Planning Obligations (Planning Gain Supplement)