Guidance for amenities required in HMOs 2024 - Emergency lighting

Emergency Lighting
Requirement Notes
A secondary lighting system supplied with electricity from a source independent of the main supply

Large HMOs

with dark or complex escape routes

Three storey HMOs and all Bedsit HMOs

Sufficiently illuminate all stairways, corridors and exit routes and should come into operation automatically on failure of the main lighting
Capable of maintaining the necessary level of illumination for a minimum period of ONE hour from the time of failure or disconnection of the normal supply
Emergency Lighting certificate duly submitted upon works completion

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