Services & Compliance

Here are various blog resources related to the services and compliance at a property, with sub-categories of Fire Safety, Security, Cleaning & Hygiene, Health & Safety, Utilities & Energy, Maintenance, Other Services, Facilities, and Planning. These range from say your fire and health and safety compliance, through to services like cleaning and utilitities. These resources help provide an overview of each area without getting too technical, so you can plan it all in at the right time and best cost.

The Radical Planning Changes – Permitted Development rights, and Use Class Orders

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planning permisison permitted development rights use class orer property management guide In the late summer of 2020, the government released some radical changes to the planning system.

They may have been under the radar with Covid-19 changes taking the spotlight, and with further changes through the White Paper and the government’s aim to “build, build, build” it’s way through the issues and economy.

However, these two changes are potential game-changers.

The Property Management Perspective

This is a whole separate area of the property industry with tonnes of technical information to understand and apply (the main government details here).

If you’re involved in property development and even the sales and letting of properties, you will become more involved. Well, as much as you can do before solicitors and planning...

The Ten Key Factors for Enabling Properties Back to Work From Covid-19 Lock-Down

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covid 19 coronavirus lock down property management guide covid19 content blue property management guide As everyone begins to look at how we come out of lock-down from the Covid-19 pandemic, the way in which you then practically use a property may need to change.

There’s lot of ideas and good principles flying around, from social-distancing signs to whole new cleaning regimes and layout of people and guests. Good practice and guidance is also filtering through, for example the RICS.

But how does this apply to your property?

And which bits are the important ones?

After looking into this, we have ten core factors rattled-down that you need to consider. (Check out our core Covid-19 updates here, and dealing with payments here).

Although these are more office-use focused as this tends to be the main first-wave back to work, they can of...

How to Easily Deal With Property Fire Drills

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fire drill property management guide Doing a fire drill at a property can cause people’s eyes to roll in disappointment and having to do a practice-run of leaving the property when the fire alarm goes off – particularly when its cold and wet outside.

Fire Marshall jackets suddenly go on, everyone stops everything, and there is a slow exodus outside to the Fire Assembly Point awaiting for someone to check that everything went okay.

However inconvenient they are, they are still very necessary in order to actually go through how people safely vacate the building in a fire or emergency, after all lives are literally at stake.

And unfortunately, even with all the best theory and preparation in the world, there will always be issues to iron-out in a practice-run, even for the...