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When did you last check the efficiency of your block lighting? Energy prices are only going one way so it’s crucial to ensure that residents aren’t paying more than they need to for lighting. In a typical residential block, lighting communal areas accounts for more than 70% of electricity usage. With recent hikes in costs – and more to come this spring - residents could be facing eye-watering bills. Even if you are managing a block with low energy LEDs fitted in lobbies and stairwells, you should serio

Our NOTB Guides will provide various informative guides to help leaseholders, property managers, residents associations', surveyors and anyone else in need of some guidance across the residential leasehold industry. This guide has been provided by the Future Group and will guide you through everything you need to know about emergency lighting in apartment blocks. To read this guide please click here.

QUESTION What is the law regarding electrics testing for the common areas in a block of 15 flats, all of which have a share of the freehold? The managing board say it is now monthly and not annually. Is this correct? ANSWER The Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation (England) Regulations 2006 requires that every fixed electrical installation in a HMO is inspected and tested at intervals not exceeding 5 years by a person qualified to undertake such inspection and testing. However, ultimately the qua