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Dear Deb It does tend to depend where you are and who will pick up the tab. Certainly here in Nottingham it is a duty of the local Social Services to provide such adaptation in houses. Although the landlord might find they are liable under part 111 of the DDA - Access to Goods and Services? I suggest your student makes contact with Social Services in the first instance. The other thing I would be asking is what does she have at the moment and who provided it. Hope that helps Chris -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deb Taylor Sent: 28 July 2005 11:42 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Private Landlords and reasonable adjustments Hi All, Looking for a bit of advice. one of our hearing impaired students is moving into private accommodation next academic year. She'll need a vibrating fire alarm installed. She's not a BSL user or technically a resident so the council won't install one for free. The local fire service will do a safety survey of the building. This costs £60 and the landlord is expected to pay this and then for any reccomendations such as the fire alarm but also possibly fire doors and anything else that the survey deems neccessary. Needless to say, the landlord isn't too happy about this. As far as I'm aware there is no obligation for landlords to make reasonable adjustments under the DDA. It's been suggested that the student apply to the Access to Learning Fund to cover these costs. However, it's not certain the student would get the money from this. Has anyone else come accross this type of situation before? Cheers, Deb Taylor University of York This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice.