Battersea and Nine Elms are covered at the standard price, and the new riverside blocks are among the quickest visits we do. Accredited assessment, certificate lodged on the government register usually within 48 hours, and a real person on the phone to arrange a time.
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No area we cover contains a wider spread. On one side, the tight Victorian terraces of the Shaftesbury estate and the streets behind Battersea Park Road. On the other, several thousand flats built in the last decade at Nine Elms and around Battersea Power Station. The two are a century and several energy standards apart, and they share a postcode.
A recent Nine Elms or Power Station flat usually lands at B, occasionally A. An unimproved Victorian terrace nearby lands at D or E. Both are normal for this postcode.
The things worth knowing before an assessor turns up at a Battersea & Nine Elms address.
Most of the new riverside blocks are served by a communal or district heat network rather than individual boilers. The efficiency of that network drives your rating, and as a resident you cannot change it — which is unusual, because normally the heating is the thing an owner can improve. What you can influence is controls, hot water use and glazing.
Flats sold in the last decade were given an on-construction EPC, valid for ten years from lodgement. Before you pay for a new one, it is worth checking whether the original is still in date — you can look it up free on the government register. We would rather tell you that than take a booking you did not need.
Solid nine-inch brick, no cavity, original sashes in places, and the same improvement picture as the older parts of South London. If your home is behind Battersea Park Road rather than on the river, ignore everything the new-build neighbours tell you about their ratings.
The minimum rating a landlord must hold rises from E to C — 2028 for new tenancies, October 2030 for the rest. What that means depends heavily on what you own, and Battersea & Nine Elms is a specific case.
The new-build side is comfortably clear of the current standards and likely of the proposed ones too, which makes those flats straightforward to let. The Victorian side is the one to check, and it needs the same solid-wall thinking as Stockwell or Brixton.
Full timeline, the £10,000 spending cap, and what is happening to the A–G rating itself: the rules, set out plainly — or the complete landlord guide: MEES and the EPC rules every UK landlord needs to know.
You need a valid one, which is not the same as a new one. The certificate issued when the block was built lasts ten years, so if it is still in date it can be used for the sale. Check the government EPC register first — it is free and takes a minute. If it has expired, or the flat has been altered enough that the original no longer reflects it, then a fresh assessment is the right call.
£69 for a home with up to three bedrooms, and £89 for four or five. That is the whole price — no call-out fee, no lodgement fee, nothing added afterwards.
Battersea & Nine Elms is inside our regular patch, so we can usually offer a slot within a few days, including evenings and Saturday mornings. We ring you the same working day you book to fix the exact time.
From £69, lodged within 48 hours of the visit. One free reschedule any time before we survey.
