Regulation 16: Devaluation exemption

The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015 · S.I. 2015/962View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Tenants' energy efficiency improvements — CHAPTER 3: Exemptions

Regulations 10(1) and 11(1) do not require a landlord, or a superior landlord (as the case may be), to consent to the making of—

a relevant energy efficiency improvement, or
a combination of two or more relevant energy efficiency improvements,

specified in a tenant's request where a report prepared by an independent surveyor states that the relevant energy efficiency improvement, or combination of relevant energy efficiency improvements (as the case may be), would result in a reduction of more than 5% in the market value of the domestic PR property, or of the building of which it forms part.

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