Housing: Thanet DC gets selective licensing court backing
Following a High Court ruling, Thanet District Council has won its right to introduce a selective licensing scheme in two of the district’s wards – Margate Central and Cliftonville West.
RPT Decision: Rent Repayment Order (CHI/00HB/HMA/2012/0002)
This case relates to an Application for a Rent Repayment Order made by six tenants. The Panel awarded the Rent Repayment Order and each tenant was awarded £335.
Housing: Ilford slum landlord fined for hell hole
Sukhbir Singh Birak, 37, of Kensington Gardens, Ilford, admitted at Thames Magistrates’ Court that he failed to comply with an Improvement Notice. This was served on him under the Housing Act by Newham Council in July 2011 for his mid terraced three-bedroom Victorian house on Chester Road in Forest Gate.
Housing: Resident landlord with ASBO fined for putting tenants at risk
A landlord has been ordered to pay fines and costs of £8,074.60 for putting tenants at risk by failing to comply with fire regulations for a house in multiple occupation (HMO) in a prosecution by Camden Council.
Housing: 81% of private landlords say their properties are their pensions
The latest research from BDRC Continental’s independent Landlords’ Panel survey reveals that four fifths of Britain’s private landlords say their properties are their pensions. Here’s how they are planning for their retirement (questions were multi-choice)
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