Awaab’s Law, damp and mould: new legal repair timeframes and what survey reports must now cover in social and private rented housing
More than 1.6 million homes in England are estimated to have a damp problem, yet for decades landlords faced no hard legal deadline to fix them. That changed on 27 October 2025, when Awaab's Law came into force for social landlords in England, imposing some of the strictest hazard-response timeframes the rental sector has ever […]
