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- 17 January 2012 at 12:33 pm #31615
AnonymousCan anyone please advise whether lifts form part of the treated floor area in PHPP?
Thanks
Daniela - 18 January 2012 at 12:57 pm #38348Anonymous
Hi Daniela
I advised my clients on an apartment block refit to site the new lifts outside the TFA. A lot of the German retrofits seem to have done this. I can post links if you want.
Ralph
- 20 January 2012 at 7:43 am #38349
Not included in TFA.
If TFA rules were to be revised and simplified (a few of us have argued for this) then I'd push for lifts to be included but that's another thread elsewhere.
Nick
- 20 January 2012 at 10:37 pm #38350Anonymous
If TFA rules were to be revised and simplified (a few of us have argued for this)
Yea, +42
then I'd push for lifts to be included but that's another thread elsewhere.
Why? It's not exactly habitable space; more like stairs, surely?
- 26 January 2012 at 6:23 pm #38351
My thinking is more WRT domestic. You might get 2 identical homes but one has a wheelchair user so needs a lift, not something people add to be flamboyant.
Nick
- 27 January 2012 at 9:45 pm #38352Anonymous
That makes sense, and illustrates how political footballs are created, I suppose. It all depends on whether the client is an obnoxious millionaire footballer/banker or a social housing association building for a differently-abled salt-of-the-earth person. I begin to understand why PHI punted the definition to somebody else (some German rental law makers, AIUI)!
- 28 January 2012 at 7:33 am #38353
🙂
I'm driven more by wanting to simplify than campaigning for fairness on this one. Whatever metric is chosen it will be wrong and open to game play.
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