Housing associations, managing agents and inspection companies working in Manchester run HHSRS programmes under England's regulatory framework. Here's what applies, how often it's due, and how local providers manage it with Kaarr.
HHSRS is the statutory assessment method in England under Part 1 of the Housing Act 2004. Local authorities must take enforcement action on Category 1 hazards, and the Decent Homes Standard requires social homes to be free of them.
Manchester City Council is the local housing authority, and the city sits within Greater Manchester, where the combined authority has pushed a regional approach to private rented standards. Several large registered providers are headquartered in or around the city.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue authority.
The city combines Victorian terraces, large post-war estates and a dense cluster of recently built high-rise residential blocks in the centre, which means older damp and ventilation problems sit alongside newer-build fire safety and cladding questions.
Manchester's selective licensing schemes feed directly into hazard inspection work. The council reported that, to May 2023, it had licensed 1,887 private rented properties since 2017 and carried out 677 compliance inspections, of which 170 were fully compliant, 425 broadly compliant with minor hazards and 82 non-compliant. Enforcement over the same period included 69 improvement notices, 10 prohibition orders, 16 suspended prohibition orders and 21 civil penalty notices worth £115,299. When the council widened the scheme in February 2025 it described its licensing work as having removed around 1,700 hazards from private homes, and said more than 3,500 homes had been licensed since 2017. These are the council's own reported figures at those dates, so check its current licensing pages for later totals.
The workflow, report template and scheduling for HHSRS are the same in every city. See how Kaarr runs HHSRS, then book a demo with your Manchester stock in mind.
Manchester is in England, so the governing framework is: Housing Act 2004, Part 1 · HHSRS Operating Guidance. HHSRS is the statutory assessment method in England under Part 1 of the Housing Act 2004. Local authorities must take enforcement action on Category 1 hazards, and the Decent Homes Standard requires social homes to be free of them.
Kaarr's recommended cadence: a full 29-hazard baseline assessment before onboarding any property, quarterly walkthrough checks, and a full annual reassessment. All other statutory reports are collected and verified before onboarding completes.
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