so the Govt. have decided to delay the full introduction of HIPS until December and to scrap the need to include a lease until then. When will they accept that they are a total waste of time?LMS argue that they have led to councils reducing the cost of local searches. That may be true in a few councils but not many. So the Govt. have spent millions to make local councils reduce the cost of searches by a few pounds??????Pretty soon there will just be the EPC report in a HIP which lets face it was all they wanted anyway!