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The LandlordZONE Journal – “LandlordLOG�
November 2005 – Issue 003

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The UK Housing Act 2004 involves one of the biggest changes for landlords for many years and most of its provisions will be enacted in April 2006. We continue this series on the Housing Act with a primer on the new Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS). This new system replaces both the housing fitness regime set out in the Housing Act 1985 and the Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) fitness test.

This issue is wholly sponsored by www.Coverlet.co.uk – one of the leading providers of insurance for the rental property market.

This issue addresses the HHSRS regime. The next two issues will address the implications of the new Tenancy Deposit Scheme

Current content includes:
• Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHRS)
• Welcome—the Editor
• What Powers will Inspectors Have?
• Will it Affect Whether I Can Get an HMO or Other License?
• Won’t This All Be Confusing?
• What Should I Do Now?
• Book Review:
• Debt Recovery by Mark Fairweather and Rosie Border
• Insurance from www.CoverLet.co.uk
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Part 1 of the new Act replaces the housing fitness regime set out in the Housing Act 1985. The separate Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) fitness test will also be replaced by this.

The test of fitness is to be replaced with a new evidence-based risk assessment process, carried out using the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS).

HHSRS is a new approach to the assessment of risks to health and safety in residential premises and is similar to processes used in industry.

Local authorities will in future base residential enforcement decisions on assessments under HHSRS.
The courses of action available to authorities are: serve an improvement notice requiring remedial works;make a prohibition order, which closes the whole or part of a dwelling or restricts the number of permitted occupants; suspend these types of notice; take emergency action; serve a hazard awareness notice; make a demolition order or declare a clearance area.

Landlords, as always, need to make sure they are exercising due diligence by applying careful management and they should always be adequately insured. Editor
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