Empty Rates and Commercial EPC

Date
21 October 2008

Times
1800 – registration and refreshment
1830 – speaker one
1930 – speaker two
2030 – Q&A
2100 - Close

Venue
Pride Park Stadium
Derby County Football Club
Pride Park
Derby
Derbyshire
DE24 8XL

Event Overview
RICS Derbyshire Local Association are inviting you to join them for a double bill of CPD actvity which will see expert speakers sharing their knoweldge on Commercial EPCs and Empty Property Rates.

Presentation One
Commercial EPCs - the reality of implementing the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.

The final element of the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive comes in on 1 October meaning that all non dwellings (commercial property), with very few exceptions, will require an energy performance certificate and accompanying recommendation report when constructed, sold or rented out. In addition public funded buildings occupied by public authorities over 1000m2 where the public has regular access will need to a display energy certificate.

This talk will look at the background to the directive, the implementation in England and Wales, the different types of certificate and associated software and the initial findings from the first commercial EPCs.

Speaker
Martin Russell-Croucher, will be the speaker. He qualified as a surveyor in 1981 and worked for 17 years in central government mainly on defence projects before spending seven years lecturing on the built environment.

He became the first director for the built environment group of faculties that included the building surveying, construction and project management faculties.

Since March 2004 he has headed up the certification and accreditation section within the faculties and forums department, working on schemes such as asbestos inspection and management, fire assessment and energy performance.

Presentation Two
Empty Property Rates - where are we now?

This Presentation will include:
• Local Government Finance Act 1988
• Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007 - background and 2008 Regulations
• Consultation document - "Modernising Empty Property Relief"
• Main changes
• Avoidance arguments
• Impact on Rating Practice and procedure
• Constructive Vandalism.
• Repair in the Rating context
• Completion Notices
• Current Litigation
• Questions

Speaker
Professor David J. Tretton FRICS IRRV - Head of Profession, Director, Rating and Central Valuation Officer, Valuation Office Agency (VOA) - will be the speaker for this presentation.

David has more than 30 years experience in the public sector, specialising in the valuation of property for local and capital taxation purposes.

In his current role he is responsible for technical and policy issues as well as providing direction and guidance on all professional aspects of rating in England and Wales, including the delivery of the Non-Domestic Revaluation in 2010.

David also has direct statutory responsibility, as Central Valuation Officer, for some of the largest rating assessments in the UK. As Head of Profession at the Valuation Office Agency, he oversees the professional and technical integrity of all valuation work undertaken by the Agency.

Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation, David sits on the RICS's Rating and Local Taxation Panel and is a member of the Rating Surveyors' Association's Committee.

In December 2007 he was awarded the status and honorary title of Visiting Professor, attached to the Faculty of Art, Design and the School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland.

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