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Yeah I mean 'a good thing' doesn't really sound like a requirement (and the solicitor is trying to make it sound like a requirement to force Hovic to do the work), i.e. even if the regs did apply to dwellings, it's unlikely they would be applied retrospectively (in this case) because some dwellings could never meet the spec for various boring reasons such as death by fire / local planning restrictions.
Whatever, any reason to tell them to do-one is good enough.
Isn't this all a bit of bollocks given the windows were fitted before the regs aimed at preventing useful windows came in to force? (I assume - we also have deathwindows (tm) and nobody gave a shit about those, fitted in 1995 or something).
Other flat, built circa 2005 also has deathwindows with a manually overridable catch.
So it's just bullshit overreach by the 'surveyors' and the clueless buyers' solicitors.