Do flats in Shirley need their own EPC?
Yes. Each self-contained flat in Shirley needs its own EPC, assessed on its own walls, floor, ceiling and heating rather than the whole building. NextDay EPC assesses Shirley flats, maisonettes and conversions, and can do several units in one visit when a landlord or agent books them together.
- Communal heating and unheated corridors both affect the result.
- Several flats booked together are usually cheaper per unit.
- Mid-floor flats often score better than houses — fewer exposed surfaces.
- A flat is assessed individually, not as part of the block.
- Conversions above shops are common and need care over the boundary.
Every flat needs its own certificate
An EPC covers a single dwelling. A block of six flats in Shirley needs six certificates, not one for the building — each is assessed on its own heat-loss surfaces and its own heating system.
What decides a Shirley flat's rating
- Exposed surfaces — only walls, floors and ceilings facing outside or an unheated space count as heat-loss elements
- Communal areas — an unheated corridor next to your flat behaves as an external surface
- Glazing — often the largest heat-loss element in a flat, because there is so little external wall
- Position in the block — a mid-floor flat with neighbours above, below and either side loses far less heat than a top-floor corner unit
- Heating type — individual gas combi, communal boiler and direct electric all score very differently
Flats and conversions around Shirley
Shirley is characterised by long ribbons of 1930s semis along the Stratford Road with newer town-centre apartments. Around Shirley Park and Parkgate and through Parkgate, Haslucks Green, Shirley Heath and Blackford, a good deal of that stock has been converted — upper floors above commercial units, large houses split into flats, and purpose-built blocks of various ages.
Conversions of housing from the 1920s and 1930s are the ones that need care. Where a flat sits above a shop or an unheated passage, that boundary is an external surface for the calculation even though it is inside the building.
Locally that means long ribbons of 1930s semis along the Stratford Road with newer town-centre apartments. The B90 postcodes run from Parkgate across to Blackford, and the stock changes noticeably as you move between them — which is why a rating from one street is a poor guide to the next.
Booking several at once
If you own or manage more than one flat in the same Shirley block, book them together. The assessor is already on site, access is already arranged, and the per-unit cost drops accordingly. See our landlord services page for portfolio work.
Book a flat EPC in Shirley
Get a fixed price in about two minutes, or read the detail on our Domestic EPC page and the Shirley EPC page.
The same next-day service applies across the whole area — including Dickens Heath, Tidbury Green, Solihull Lodge and Monkspath, and every other Solihull area.
