Do dwellings in multiple occupancy, such as a house with bedsits, require an EPC for each room or bedsit?
This will depend on the type of tenancy that has been granted. Joint and several If you grant a joint and several tenancy where all the tenants are on one agreement, then this is, in legal terms, no different to letting a normal dwelling to a single family. Therefore, one EPC will be required for the whole dwelling. Individual let rooms Where individual rooms in a building are rented out on separate tenancies and there are shared facilities (e.g. kitchen and/or bathroom), an EPC is not required. An EPC is only required for a dwelling that is self-contained, meaning that it does not share essential facilities such as a bathroom/shower room, wc or kitchen with any other dwelling, and that it has its own entrance. This is because an EPC is only required on the rental of a building or part of a building ‘designed or altered to be used separately’. Renting a room does not meet the ‘part of a building’ definition. Put simply, an EPC is only required for a habitable unit if it is self-contain
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