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The legislation was created in partnership with govt, lenders and the RICS. It is not advisory it is binding and surveyors who are members of RICS are bound to uphold it.
The only way around it is to gain a survey from an RICS surveyor who properly understand the EWS1 application and is confident and competent enough to provide a valuation without an EWS1 form. There is apparently some weird thing around insurance of their valuations being an issue and surveyors not being willing to provide a valuation that they might be held accountable to.
I have made official complaints to the surveying company that contracted the surveyor, the RICS and also brought it to the attention of my MP (Neil Coyle).
Anyway, it's a filthy fucking mess and I'm up to my eyes in it.