Dilapidations: Dilapidations Rules
The Dilapidations Rules carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 28 to 56 day, read 15 September 2026.
- Median of the published figures
- 56 day
- Range
- 28 to 56 day
- Sources with a figure
- 3
- Sources read that publish one
- 2 of 11
2 of the 11 named sources read in full publish a figure; 9 publish none, read 15 September 2026.
By stage
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| stage access-notice | 24 hour | 24 to 24 hour | 1 |
| stage schedule | 56 day | 56 to 56 day | 1 |
| stage response | 56 day | 56 to 56 day | 1 |
| stage negotiations | 28 day | 28 to 28 day | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dilapidations Protocol (Ministry of Justice, CPR pre-action protocol) | 56 day | schedule | 2026-09-12 |
| Dilapidations Protocol (Ministry of Justice, CPR pre-action protocol) | 56 day | response | 2026-09-12 |
| Dilapidations Protocol (Ministry of Justice, CPR pre-action protocol) | 28 day | negotiations | 2026-09-12 |
| Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 s.11 (implied repairing covenant) | 24 hour | access-notice | 2026-09-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (4)
- Dilapidations Protocol (Ministry of Justice, CPR pre-action protocol), read 2026-09-12:
What is a reasonable time will vary from case to case, but will generally be within 56 days after the termination of the tenancy.
- Dilapidations Protocol (Ministry of Justice, CPR pre-action protocol), read 2026-09-12:
This will usually be within 56 days after the landlord sends the Quantified Demand.
- Dilapidations Protocol (Ministry of Justice, CPR pre-action protocol), read 2026-09-12:
The landlord and tenant and/or their respective surveyors are encouraged to meet before the tenant is required to respond to the Quantified Demand and should generally meet within 28 days after the tenant sends the Response.
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 s.11 (implied repairing covenant), read 2026-09-12:
In a lease in which the lessor’s repairing covenant is implied there is also implied a covenant by the lessee that the lessor, or any person authorised by him in writing, may at reasonable times of the day and on giving 24 hours’ notice in writing to the occupier, enter the premises comprised in the lease for the purpose of viewing their condition and state of repair.
Read in full, publishes no figure
9 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Civil Procedure Rules pre-action protocols index, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 s.18 (the diminution cap), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 (contents), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938 (contents), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938 s.1 (restriction on enforcing repairing covenants), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Part II (business tenancies), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- RICS Dilapidations in England and Wales (professional standard page), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- RICS building surveying standards index, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- justice.gov.uk, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
2 of the 11 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 9 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in day (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 7 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
Derivation as chartered: one row per rule per stage of a claim - schedule served, quantified demand, response, without-prejudice meeting, ADR, proceedings - with the deadline the protocol sets and the authority it comes from, and beside it the CAP rules that decide what the landlord can actually recover; the derivation is the TIMETABLE a tenant or landlord can date from their own lease-end (nobody publishes it as dated arithmetic), plus the count and share of surveying practices that publish a fee for each stage from the fee index
7 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (11)
- Dilapidations Protocol (Ministry of Justice, CPR pre-action protocol) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Civil Procedure Rules pre-action protocols index (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 s.18 (the diminution cap) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 (contents) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938 (contents) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938 s.1 (restriction on enforcing repairing covenants) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Part II (business tenancies) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 s.11 (implied repairing covenant) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- RICS Dilapidations in England and Wales (professional standard page) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- RICS building surveying standards index (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- justice.gov.uk (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Dilapidations Rules carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 28 to 56 day, read 15 September 2026.
2 of the 11 named sources read in full publish a figure; 9 publish none, read 15 September 2026.
Dilapidations Rules, stage access-notice: median 24 hour across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.
Dilapidations Rules, stage schedule: median 56 day across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.
Dilapidations Rules, stage response: median 56 day across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.
Dilapidations Rules, stage negotiations: median 28 day across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.
Cite as: "Asbestos Survey Cost Dilapidations Rules", updated 2026-09-15, https://asbestossurveycost.co.uk/datasets/dilapidations-rules/.
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