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Legal considerations when choosing business property
Key legal obligations and restrictions to consider when choosing commercial premises.
Choose the right location for your business premises
Identify the advantages and disadvantages when deciding on a suitable location for your commercial property.
Search for commercial property
Specifying what you want when searching for business premises and where you can search for suitable commercial property.
How business rates valuations are calculated
Valuation for newly built properties, alterations to an existing property, specialist schemes, and appealing your valuation.
Business property specification
Preparing a specification that sets out what you want when starting a search for commercial premises.
Property changes and business rates
How making alterations to your property or the type of business you use them for can affect your business rates.
Paying business rates
Payment options available for you to pay your business rates bill, what you should do if you can't pay your bill, and what will happen if you don't.
Help available for business rates
Information on various rate relief and support schemes for businesses.
Fire safety and building work
Taking into account building regulations requirements for fire safety when building, extending or materially altering your business premises.
Grow your retail business
Find out how to improve your retail business, attract more customers and grow your sales through tactics like visual merchandising and online retail.
Manage asbestos in rented business property
Responsibilities for managing asbestos in commercial premises, and who exercise them.
Fire safety in rented business property
Key responsibilities for tenants and landlords under fire regulations for commercial property.
Electrical safety in rented business property
How responsibility for electrical safety in commercial premises is determined.
Gas safety in rented business property
Division of responsibilities between landlords and tenants for gas safety checks and maintenance.
Energy performance in rented business property
Measures that landlords of commercial premises must take to comply with energy performance of building requirements.
Fire drills and training
How fire safety training should effectively inform employees and give them an understanding of what to do if a fire breaks out.
Fire risk assessment
Carrying out a fire risk assessment and putting in place appropriate measures to ensure the risks are minimised.
Fire safety equipment and evacuation plans
You must be able to detect a fire quickly and have means of escape and equipment to fight the fire as appropriate.
Duties of the appropriate person for fire safety
How the responsible person must have a fire risk assessment in place and minimise risk using a fire management plan.
Fire safety responsibility
All businesses and commercial premises must have a designated person responsible for fire safety arrangements.