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Now Landlords Have to Tackle Dirty Air for Tenants

by guildy | 6 Dec 2019 | Advertising a Property for Rent (Wales), Advertising a Property To Let (England), New Legislation, News | 1 comment

Now Landlords Have to Tackle Dirty Air for Tenants

The pollution levels in the air tenants breathe is the latest check landlords must carry out on a buy to let home.

From next year, landlords must include details of high pollution levels on letting particulars for tenants to read before signing up to move in a property.

The check is part of ‘material information’ National Trading Standards want landlords to tell tenants before they move into a home.

How landlords will discover pollution levels at their rental properties is unclear.

Some data is available for London boroughs from the charity web site addresspollution.org, but outside the capital, pollution data is scant.

James Munro, of National Trading Standards, said: “Pollution mapping is more widely available, and the facility is there to search by postcode how badly a property is affected, we’re saying that this is material information. This is something people should know if they’re buying a house especially if they have children or elderly family members moving into the property.

“If it’s a low rating, it could be a good marketing tool, but if it’s a high rating — of which there are quite a few hotspots in London — people need to know.”

The Royal College of Physicians says polluted air kills 40,000 people a year in the UK and costs healthcare services and businesses £20 billion.

The check will monitor nitrogen oxide levels in a neighbourhood.

The latest official data revealed 83% of reporting areas have pollution levels over the legal minimum.

Some of the worst polluted areas in London also have the most expensive homes.

Kensington & Chelsea, where homes can change hands for £2.5 million and command rents of £7,000 a month and plush Westminster are both among the boroughs in the capital with the worst pollutant levels.

1 Comment

  1. dkhiggs
    dkhiggs on 06/12/2019 at 9:35 am

    A further example of the nanny state going into overdrive.
    Whilst one would imagine that we are all concerned about pollution, why should it fall on Landlords to provide such localised detail to prospective tenants.
    I wonder what will come out of the woodwork next, will we have to;
    Provide Local crime figures
    Provide the average waiting times to see a GP in the local surgery
    State how many takeaways providing vegetarian dishes there are within 1 mile etc

    If prospective tenants are concerned about such aspects, they can surely access such information themselves whether on line or by other means.

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