Editorial Policy

1. Why We Publish This

This site carries a large amount of guidance on UK fire safety, asbestos, energy performance and grant law. People make decisions on the back of it — landlords work out whether they need an assessment, HMO operators check a licensing threshold, homeowners weigh up a heat pump. Some of those decisions carry legal consequences.

That is a reason to be explicit about how the content is produced, where it comes from and what happens when we get something wrong. This page sets that out.

2. Where Our Information Comes From

Legal and regulatory statements on this site are written from primary sources, not from other people's summaries. In practice that means:

• Legislation — the text of the instrument itself on legislation.gov.uk. Where we cite a duty, we cite the article or regulation number so you can read it yourself.
• Official guidance — GOV.UK, the Health and Safety Executive, the National Fire Chiefs Council, Ofgem, and the relevant department (currently DESNZ for energy schemes and MHCLG for housing and building safety).
• Local authority sources — for licensing and local requirements, the council's own published pages, linked directly so you can verify what applies in your area.
• Our own work — what our assessors actually find on site, and what licensing teams, insurers and lenders actually ask for. This is where our practical guidance comes from, and we label it as experience rather than law.

3. Our Standards

• We name the law. Where a duty exists, we say which instrument creates it and which provision. Vague appeals to "regulations" are not useful to anyone.
• We separate law from opinion. A legal requirement, a recognised standard and our professional recommendation are three different things, and we try to make clear which one you are reading.
• We date time-sensitive claims. Commencement dates, grant amounts and deadlines change. Where a figure or a date matters, we state it explicitly rather than saying "currently" or "soon".
• We do not claim accreditations we do not hold. Where analysis is carried out by a third party, we say so and describe that third party's accreditation accurately rather than implying it is ours.
• We do not publish figures we cannot attribute. If we cannot point to a source for a number, the number does not go on the site.
• We say what a service does not cover. Limits, exclusions and the things a grant will not pay for belong on the page, not in a conversation after you have committed.

4. Review and Fact-Checking

Content is reviewed against primary sources before publication, and re-checked when the underlying law or scheme changes. Fire safety and energy policy in the UK have moved quickly in recent years — the Fire Safety Act 2021, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 and successive changes to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme and to minimum energy efficiency standards have all shifted what duty holders must do.

When a change lands, we go back through the affected pages rather than adding a note to the newest one. Pages that carry a legal position show the date they were last reviewed.

5. Use of AI Tools

We use software tools, including AI assistants, to help draft, structure and check content. Nothing is published solely on the strength of what a tool produced.

Every legal or factual claim is verified against the primary source before it goes live, and the responsibility for what appears on this site is ours, not a tool's. Where a tool and a primary source disagree, the primary source wins.

6. Corrections

We will get things wrong. When we do, we correct the page rather than quietly deleting it, and we correct it everywhere the error appears rather than only where it was reported.

If you spot something on this site that is inaccurate, out of date or unclear, tell us at [email protected] with the page address and what you think is wrong. We will look at it, and we will tell you the outcome — including if we conclude the page was right.

Material corrections to a legal position are made promptly and the page's review date is updated to reflect them.

7. Guidance Is Not Advice

The guidance on this site is general information about UK property compliance. It is written to be accurate, but it cannot take account of your particular building, your tenancy arrangements or your circumstances, and it is not legal advice.

Responsibility for compliance rests with the duty holder — the Responsible Person under the Fire Safety Order, the duty holder under the Control of Asbestos Regulations, the landlord under MEES. If your situation is unusual or the stakes are high, take advice on the specific facts. We are happy to be the first call.

8. Commercial Relationships

We are a commercial business and this site exists to win work. We think that is compatible with telling the truth, and we would rather lose an enquiry than publish something misleading to keep it.

We do not take payment to feature or recommend third-party products or suppliers, and we do not publish paid guest content or paid links. Where we describe a government scheme we may have a commercial interest in the resulting installation — the Boiler Upgrade Scheme is the obvious example — and we state the limits of that scheme, including what it does not pay for, on the page itself.

9. Contact the Editorial Team

Corrections, questions and challenges: [email protected] · 0330 043 2331
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