Minimum housing standards
- A toilet
- A bath or shower
- A hand basin
- Must be configured for ease of movement and access to the facilities
- Must have adequate privacy to someone using the facilities
- Toilet doors must not open directly into a room used or intended to be used for food storage, preparation, cooking or consumption, unless ventilated by an exhaust fan or similar
- Must have adequate waterproofing in walls and floor
- Must have hot and cold plumbed running water to bath
- Must have cold plumbed running water to toilet
- Must be plumbed to a drainage system capable of disposing all sewage and wastewater
- Have at least one electric light fixture
- Reasonably sufficient electrical power points
- Must be adequately ventilated
- Must be adequately lit
- Doors to each toilet and bathroom must be fitted with a lock that can be operated only from the inside without a key *
- Ratio of 1:10 residents *
* Additional standards for rooming houses. Rooming houses are residential properties where rooms are available for rent to three or more unrelated people.
Examples of substandard properties
Heavily cracked top and bottom shower glass
Inadequate privacy
Cracked shower tiles, water leakage leading to mould
Growing mould in bathroom
Non functioning toilet
Inadequate bathing facilities