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| Home Group to launch its Gas Access campaign Home Group, one of the UK's largest social housing providers is working with the Association of Gas Safety Managers (AGSM), to launch its Gas Access campaign to stop tenants playing 'Russian roulette' with their and their neighbours' lives by refusing access to gas safety engineers. The campaign has been launched to protect families and save nearly £0.5bn. The Law rightly requires all landlords to carry out annual safety checks on any properties they own which have gas supplies. But, while Local Authorities can get same-day court orders to force entry to properties where tenants refuse access to gas engineers, it can take up to four months for social housing providers to gain access. Home Group, which manages 55,000 homes across 200 local authorities in the UK, is working with CORGI Technical Services, the UK's most trusted gas safety provider, and the AGSM, whose members service 2m social homes, to call for a change in the law to give regulated landlords the same timely access as their local authority counterparts. New data shows that the delays caused by 14,500 tenants who refuse access to properties costs housing providers £493,690,890 over a 10-year period. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Construction News :: home page |