Advice on the maintenance of tenement buildings.
A tenement is a building comprising of two or more related flats that separate from one another horizontally.
Tenements differ from other forms of housing because all owners and tenants have a shared interest in the building. Common repairs to the roof, wall structures, chimneys, gutters, etc, require owners to work together towards a common goal if a good repair and maintenance regime is to be achieved.
Get advice on your responsibilities as an owner, how to get together with your neighbours to plan and pay for repairs and maintenance, what the Council can do to help and advise, and how to get a grant to assist towards the cost of a home condition survey.
Tenemental common repair requires organisation and administrative arrangements between all owners in a building to make decisions about a range of common activities. Find out more about what an Owners’ Association is, how to set one up and how to run it.
Common Repair Responsibilities
Owners need to be aware of their own responsibilities and that of their neighbours, for maintaining the common parts of their tenement.
What are technical guides and when do you need them.
Paying for works is an owner’s responsibility. The principle source of funding for major works is private loans, though, some assistance may be available. Please click above link for further information.
In extreme cases, when all other reasonable actions have failed to have serious common disrepair remedied, the Council may serve a legal notice on an owner requiring action.
Specialist Help for Disabled and Elderly
Information is available for adapting the home to suit a person with a disability or an elderly person.
Find out how to apply for planning permission or a building warrant
See our planning guidance pages or apply for planning permission or a building warrant.
Landlords and Common repairs
If you are trying to contact or locate a landlord in order for them to contribute to common repairs, their contact details or that of their agent may be found on the
If there are no details, you can contact The Council’s landlord registration team and they may be able to assist further: landlord.registration@argyll-bute.gov.uk
