Another housing specialist has thrown its weight behind the Home Information Packs (Hips) and Energy Performance Certificate schemes as they seek to encourage greener home design.Fee free mortgage broker London and Country has underlined the importance of the packs, predicting a positive response from home-owners with sales on the horizon.Areas from the kitchen to the loft to the windows are all set to adapt to the new premium on household energy information stipulated by the new obligation for homes of at least three bedrooms to carry Hips at sale time.London and Country said that adaptation was already happening as people were encouraged to respond, with the widening of Hips looking to the have succeeded in re-focusing home design on green consciousness.A spokesperson for London and Country said The fact that a proportion of the people said we might go and do some of the things flagged up in that report says that overall we should see some improvements in the housing stock in the UK, in terms of energy efficiency.Everyone is trying to look at energy efficiency. Im not sure that, if it wasnt forced upon them in the Hip, that people would have gone and got independent reports and made the energy efficiency changes.Kitchens are a room in the house where energy efficiency is likely to become an increasingly important issue energy consumption is high in a room using appliances like ovens and dishwashers, with food waste disposal also featuring high among green issues.