Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney Jeff Whilst I can understand your feelings, exactly what kind of a let are you thinking of? If it is a small park and you are going to take a full repairing lease, then the letting companies responsibility stops at your gates, they would of course be responsible for all communal areas, the highways (if unadopted) and services both in and out., if not full repairing then are you going down the traditional road of deposit and term of let which includes the landlord being responsible for repairs etc. It may also be that they are an organisation with a small staff compliment, thus not making the criteria under sec 2 (3) of HASAWA for a written policy statement. They do of course owe you a duty of care under common law and it would be unfair of me to comment further without knowing what type of agreement you are considering entering into, perhaps you can elucidate a little. All the best Charles

Posted By Heather Aston Jeffrey Totally agree with what Charley has said, you can't decide what info you should be getting until you know the terms of the lease. We rent out a premises that belongs to us. Prior to the tenant moving in we made sure fire precautions were OK - alarm, extinguishers, remote connection, etc and we gave them a copy of the asbestos risk assessment as there is some (structural) asbestos on the premises. We also confirmed that we were up to date with infrastructure type things like fixed wiring testing. Similarly we lease a number of premises from others. In some of these we've been responsible ourselves for installing just about everything beyone the bare shell of the building and maintaining it too. In every case we were responsible last year for the asbestos risk assessment, not the landlord. I think you might be expecting too much.... come back and tell us when you've seen the lease terms. Heather