This Primary Authority Advice has been produced by Warwickshire County Council Trading Standards Service, in partnership with The Property Ombudsman and Propertymark, for use by member businesses as an aid to complying with the law. If you follow this advice correctly, your local Trading Standards Service should respect this and not ask you to comply with the law in a different way. If you are contacted by a local authority enforcement body, please inform them that you are a member of the scheme.
Assured advice issued:
Often an agent may wish to describe a view or garden as south facing. The agent should only do this if they can show that the garden/view direction falls between a compass point between South South East (SSE) to South (S) or South (S) to South South West (SSW).
We would advise the agent to use a suitable compass for this purpose at the property and then double check this using the relevant Ordnance Survey Explorer Map.
Agents should avoid using phrases such as ‘south facing property’, as this description is not sufficient to indicate which part of the property is actually facing south.
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