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BS7671 and Serviced Apartments and Aparthotels

Sergio Fernandez

Can the terms be formally defined for BS7671 and BS5839 in a cohesive manner?
What is a Serviced Apartments 
What is a Aparthotels

As an example some people see Aparthotels as used for shorter term occupancy Caveat time hotel bedrooms do not usually include the cooking facilities thus impacted by BS5839 part 1 and 6


What happens IF building includes a combination of short term and long term occupancy?

Could/Would/Should serviced apartments be treated as High Risk Building?



As always please be polite and respectful in this purely academic debate.





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  • I don't think we have any such definitions at the moment, but is there anything we would change if we did?
    To my mind the situation is very similar to say a block of leasehold flats, where the contents of the flats (consumer units, fire alarms sockets and switches) are the responsibility of the leaseholding owner/occupier, who may or may not sub-let to a tenant ocupant, but things in the common area (supply submains to flats and maybe meter enclosures and earthing and incoming mains bonding) are the responsibility of the freeholder.
    I suspect we need more clarity on that very common situation, where responsibility is split, and the issues in these cases may well be a subset of the same. (Tensions commonly arise when the speed of the free holders maintenance program moves at a far slower pace than that of the leaseholders, for example and again when tenants have concerns that fall under the free holders area, when they have no direct contract with the freeholder.)

    Mike.

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  • I don't think we have any such definitions at the moment, but is there anything we would change if we did?
    To my mind the situation is very similar to say a block of leasehold flats, where the contents of the flats (consumer units, fire alarms sockets and switches) are the responsibility of the leaseholding owner/occupier, who may or may not sub-let to a tenant ocupant, but things in the common area (supply submains to flats and maybe meter enclosures and earthing and incoming mains bonding) are the responsibility of the freeholder.
    I suspect we need more clarity on that very common situation, where responsibility is split, and the issues in these cases may well be a subset of the same. (Tensions commonly arise when the speed of the free holders maintenance program moves at a far slower pace than that of the leaseholders, for example and again when tenants have concerns that fall under the free holders area, when they have no direct contract with the freeholder.)

    Mike.

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