Making reasonable adjustments for disabled tenants

There is also an obligation on a controller of premises to make reasonable adjustments to let premises or premises to let unless they can justify a refusal.

The duty to make reasonable adjustments arises only in relation to a disabled person who is living in the property or wishes to live there (this may be the tenant or their partner or member of their family), and only if the adjustment is requested. The request does not have to be in writing.

There is also an obligation on a controller of premises to make reasonable adjustments to let premises or premises to let unless they can justify a refusal.

The duty to make reasonable adjustments arises only in relation to a disabled person who is living in the property or wishes to live there (this may be the tenant or their partner or member of their family), and only if the adjustment is requested. The request does not have to be in writing.

There are certain exemptions to these requirements. A landlord does not have to make adjustments to a property which is, or has been, his own home if he is managing or letting the property himself. This also applies if the landlord uses an agent to let a property which was his own home but subsequently manages it himself.

Although there is nothing to prevent landlords making adjustments to a property in anticipation of making it more inviting to disabled tenants, the law does not require this.

However, if a potential tenant wanted to rent a property and asked for a reasonable adjustment to be made and the landlord was not prepared to do this and could not justify this refusal he would be committing an offence