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No FRA carried out I suspect - I asked several times but none were emailed over. BR and the fire officer said the tenant's ceiling should have been 30mins already. Now it needs to be 60min. There's a suspended ceiling but it's not fire rated. It will be their suspended ceiling. They've been in the premises for over 30yrs. Their lease states they are responsible for meeting all fire regulations.

The ceiling should have been a 30min but was zero and now it needs to be a 60min.

I have recently purchased a three story terraced building with a ground floor commercial tenant (betting shop) and a 1st and 2nd floor commercial space, now being turned into flats. The Fire Officer and Building Control have said the existing ceiling in the betting shop offers no fire resistance. They said it should have, for a long time, had a 30min rating and now needs a 60min given it will be residential above. The ceiling will need to be upgraded by sliding sections of fire rated plasterboard through the existing suspended ceiling framework and applying it to the ceiling. The lease states the tenant must keep his space up to date with all fire regulations. However, he is arguing that that does not include the ceiling. He claims that is the fabric of the building and therefore classed as communal. Even so, communal costs are split 57% ground floor and 43% uppers, meaning I would pay 43% at present. Can anyone please confirm which party is responsible for paying for the work to be done?