THE NON-DOMESTIC PRIVATE RENTED PROPERTY MINIMUM STANDARD
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Chapter 2: Minimum Standards Improvements and Funding<br />
Chapter 2: Minimum Standards<br />
Improvements and Funding<br />
2.1 Relevant Energy Efficiency Improvements (Regulation 28)<br />
42. For the purposes of the minimum standards, the relevant energy efficiency<br />
improvements which a landlord may choose to install to allow a sub-standard<br />
property to reach an EPC rating of E (either a single measure, or a<br />
combination of measures as appropriate) are any energy efficiency<br />
improvements recommended for the property via any of the following:<br />
<br />
<br />
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a relevant recommendations report 20 (including the recommendations report<br />
accompanying a valid EPC),<br />
a report prepared by a surveyor 21 , or<br />
a Green Deal advice report,<br />
43. Details of the energy efficiency improvements which may be specified in any<br />
of the above reports, and which may be installed to meet the minimum level<br />
of energy efficiency in non-domestic properties, are set out in Appendices B<br />
and C of this guidance 22 . Technically, as the Regulations are currently<br />
drafted, the measures set out in Appendix B (the Green Deal Order<br />
Schedule) would only apply where Green Deal finance was being used, while<br />
the measures provided for through Appendix C (the Building Regulations<br />
Approved Document L2B) apply where measures otherwise funded will<br />
achieve a 7 year payback. However, in practice there will be significant<br />
overlap between the measures represented by these two sources.<br />
44. As noted in chapter one, where a sub-standard property is able to undertake<br />
improvements to meet the minimum standard (or can undertake<br />
improvements but still not meet the minimum standard), the landlord may<br />
20 ‘Recommendations report’ has the meaning given in The Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales)<br />
Regulations 2012: ‘recommendations made by an energy assessor for the cost-effective improvement of the energy<br />
performance of a building or building unit’.<br />
21 A qualified surveyor is one who is on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ register of valuers. The register<br />
can be accessed via RICSs website at: www.ricsfirms.com.<br />
22 The list of energy efficiency improvements in Appendix B appears in the Schedule to the Green Deal (Qualifying<br />
Energy Improvements) Order 2012; the list in Appendix C reproduces Table 6 of the Building Regulations Approved<br />
Document L2B.<br />
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