Consultation Responses

SPF Responded to the Edinburgh Heritage Plan highlighting the importance to collaboration in with developers, investors, stakeholders and the wider community to transmit the value of heritage and conserve it. We widely support the management and action plan to safeguard the city's Outstanding Universal Value. 

SPF responded to the Heat in Buildings bill consultation highlighting our membership views on the challenges in achieving the target of decarbonising Scotland's built environment by 2045. We relayed member concerns over the proposal of achieving MEES targets by PRS landlord by 2028 and owner occupiers by 2033 in the absence of sufficient technology, skills, manpower and most importantly the funding in carrying out these changes. You can read our full response here.

Read our response on the government's proposals to strengthen sanctions against non compliant building standards.  

SPF submitted a response to the Glasgow Co-Living Guidance. We highlighted membership views on extending Co-Living guidance beyond the city centre boundary. We felt the space requirement mentioned is overly prescriptive and we suggested flexibility will encourage the provision of better quality or cost effective options to occupiers. We also highlighted potential issues with imposing a 6-month tenancy period. Read our full response here.

The accessible homes consultation looks at reforming various aspects of Part 1 of the Housing for Varying Needs design guide as well as introducing a Scottish Accessible Homes Standard to be applicable for all new builds and those which are converted from non-residential to residential. Read our response here. 

This Bill seeks stakeholders views on how to deal with unsafe cladding on buildings. The Bill concerns buildings which are multi-residential, constructed or refurbished between 1 June 1992 and 1 June 2022, over 11 metres high and with external wall cladding system. The key proposals include the creation of a Cladding Assurance Register and to establish a responsible developers scheme where developers responsible for using unsafe cladding will be required to cover the costs of remediation work. 

Read our response to the Glasgow City Council's consultation on the City Centre Strategy. 

This documents is intended to provide additional context and comments to some of the questions outlined in the Scottish governments recent survey on rented sector reform and rent controls.  

Read our response which supports mandatory training for elected members before they can approve planning applications. 

SPF submitted response Building Warrant fees consultation, we widely support the changes but we have highlighted that the change in fees should be translated in improved services and need for a transparent system to account for increase in fees.

SPF responded to the EPC reform consultation which proposes the change in the EPC metrics, including fabric rating, cost rating and heating systems to be considered while evaluating the new EPCs. We widely support these proposal, we appealed to align the proposal for EPC reform with existing infrastructure for instance with the boiler system age. We support the move away from the pdf form to more accessible API energy passports. requiring historical data to be updated in order to feed into the SAP and get more accurate rating for the buildings. Read the full response here.