[level-member] Another Fire Risk consultation. This time a non-government consultation (Fire Risk Assessment Competency Council) on what makes someone competent to carry out a fire risk assessment in non-domestic premises, which includes blocks of flats. Fire Risk Assessment Competency Document [/level-member]

[level-member] This was about proposals for updating the property value limits which are used to determine whether certain rights are available to residential long leaseholders. Details here. [/level-member]

[level-member] The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) commissioned a review of the most effective policies to deal with fuel poverty. Professor John Hill conducted the review. Details are available here The FPRA met with the DECC to explain the implications for leaseholders. [/level-member]

[level-member] View the relevant documents A Department of Energy & Climate Change consultation 15.12.10 The FPRA response here 14.01.11 DECC’s response to the consultation 28.2.11 [/level-member]

[level-member] An important Consultation to improve the currently confusing fire risk assessment process for the common parts of blocks of flats, by the Department for Communities and Local Government. The existing fire risk assessment procedures and guidelines are clearly a cause for concern for members and the ‘responsible person’ for managing the fire risk in …

[level-member] Office of Fair Trading (OFT) Off-grid Energy Market Study and the impact on long-leaseholders Details here are available here. The FPRA response can be view here. [/level-member]

[level-member] The consultation related to whether blocks of flats are treated as residential or commercial properties, which can impact on other factors such disconnection procedures. The OFGEM open letter can be viewed here  The FPRA’s submission can be viewed here [/level-member]

[level-member] The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consultation on ‘issues that have arisen in relation to the implementation of the Right to Enfranchise (RTE) provisions in the 2002 Act’. View here Details of the consultation The FPRA’s response DCLG issued a Summary of Response on 31 March 2010.   [/level-member]

[level-member] A consultation on the above topics was published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 3 March 2010. Details are available here [/level-member]

[level-member] Member organisation Arlington Park Mansions Ltd submitted its views on the issue of regulating managing agents, which the FPRA has forwarded to the Task and Finish Group at the DCLG (which is considering the question of regulation). In summary, Arlington Park Mansions is concerned, as is the FPRA, that regulation for the managing agent …