What is the definition of a habitable home environment in the care and support eligibility criteria regulations 2015?
<p>Article 2 paragraph 2(f) of the Care and Support (Eligibility Criteria) Regulations 2015 specifies the outcome of maintaining a habitable home environment. What is the definition of ‘habitable’?</p>

<h2>There is plenty of <a href="https://anthonygold.co.uk/latest/blog/how-bad-do-conditions-have-to-be-to-make-a-property-unfit-for-human-habitation/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">case law</a></h2>
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<p>Rendlesham Estates plc and others v Barr Ltd – [2015] 1 WLR 3663 summerised the recent caselaw on fitness for habitation and concluded that:</p>
<p>The specific facts in each case should be considered.
The property should be considered as a whole rather than defect by defect. So many more minor defects may have a cumulative effect.</p>
<p>For a dwelling to be fit for habitation … it must …</p>
<p>(a) be capable of occupation for a reasonable time without risk to the health or safety of the occupants: where a dwelling is or is part of a newly constructed building, what is a reasonable time will be a question of fact…; and</p>
<p>(b) be capable of occupation for a reasonable time without undue inconvenience or discomfort to the occupants.</p>
<p>The issues in this case causing properties to be unfit for habitation included damp, condensation mould, leaks and “a lift that …. broke down with monotonous regularity”.</p>
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