On Friday 12 September 2008 20:19:09 Kendall D. Corbett wrote:
> Deri, can you shed some light on this?
>
> http://www.workplacelaw.net/news/display/id/16698

Hi Kendal,

This was a "discussion paper" issued last year:- 

<http://equalities.gov.uk/publications/DLREasyReadbkmk14.pdf>

Section 10 says:-

"10. Better access for
disabled people in rented
housing and flats

At the moment, when a landlord rents out
a house or flat he or she does not have to
make any of the shared parts of the building
accessible. These are the parts that everyone
can use like stairs, hallways and shared
lounges.

This means that sometimes disabled people
cannot use the shared parts of their building.
We think that landlords should sometimes
have to make changes to the shared parts of
the building if the disabled person who needs
the changes pays for them."

So no real change there then:-

Me: "Landlord, please can you make your block of flats accessible."
Landlord: "Yessirree, that'll be £250,000, thankyou very much"

The fact the disabled person has to pay for the change means that if the 
landlord doesn't want to do it he'll just price the job to make it 
unaffordable. So, looks like well meaning guff.

Cheers

Deri

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