Urgent repair costs
Housing statistics and English Housing Survey, glossary, published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in 2019, defines urgent repair costs as: ‘cover urgent work only which is defined as work required in the short term to tackle problems presenting a risk to health, safety, security or further significant deterioration of the building.’
See Chapter 5, Annex 5 of the EHS Technical report for more information about how these are calculated and the assumptions made.’
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