Landlord Asbestos Responsibilities Explained.

If you let property built before 2000, asbestos is your legal problem, not your tenant’s. Here’s what the duty to manage actually requires, in plain English.

What the law says

The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 places a duty to manage asbestos in the common parts of rented residential buildings and throughout non-domestic lettings, identify it, record it, assess it, manage it. HMO licensing and tenant safety duties extend the same logic inside dwellings.

What compliance looks like

A management survey, a written register and plan, re-inspection on a sensible cycle, and sharing the information with anyone doing work, gas engineers included. For a typical rented house this is a few hundred pounds, not thousands.

When work is planned

Any refurbishment needs the register checked and, where the fabric is disturbed, a refurbishment survey first. Damaged or high-risk material gets removed with certification your records, and your insurer, will accept.

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