23 September, 2015
23 September, 2015
New report from the Local Government Ombudsman finds that, after investigating the fifth Ombudsman complaint into the sale of a council flat which took nine years, Lambeth Council was at fault because it had not progressed the sale for 13 months, for its poor communication about the lack of progress of the sale, and because, despite assurances to the contrary, it had not paid the £500 remedy it agreed in 2013.
23 September, 2015
New briefing sets out details of private sector landlords' new obligations to carry out immigration checks on tenants, brought in by the Immigration Act 2014 and amended by the Immigration Bill 2015.
21 September, 2015
New analysis by Shelter, reported by the BBC, finds just two of the 166 councils in England listed as selling properties through Right to Buy had succeeded in replacing more than 100 per cent of the properties sold.
21 September, 2015
Responding to a consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government, the LGA said rogue landlords should face stronger sentencing, tougher license conditions and potential blacklisting.
21 September, 2015
New regulations that, from 1 October 2015, require landlords in the private rented sector in England to ensure that a smoke alarm is equipped on every storey of their rented dwelling when occupied under a tenancy, and that a carbon monoxide alarm is equipped in any room which contains a solid fuel burning combustion appliance, and also require landlords to ensure that such alarms are in proper working order at the start of a new tenancy.
18 September, 2015
18 September, 2015
A new report from Muscular Dystrophy UK - Breaking Point - reveals that for 70 per cent of people surveyed who had been offered a home by their council, the property was not suitable; over a third faced serious financial hardship due to trying to adapt their homes; and many have accrued major credit card debt or used up life-savings.
17 September, 2015
However, new DCLG figures also show that less than 4,000 new dwellings started or acquired by local authorities in same period.
17 September, 2015
New research from Shelter suggests that, even if all the homes are sold, there could still be a funding shortfall of around £2.45bn over four years.
16 September, 2015
New research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores how landlords are responding to poverty, what can be learnt from their written strategies and plans, and what happens in practice.
15 September, 2015
Garden Court Chambers Free Movement immigration blog provides link to opinion for the Association of Charitable Foundations.
10 September, 2015
Ahead of the forthcoming spending review, the Chartered Institute of Housing also calls on the government to maintain and strengthen the affordable homes programme, to help councils and housing associations build homes for below market rent for people who can’t afford to buy.
10 September, 2015
New regulations that bring into force section 35 (landlord application to private rented housing panel) of the Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Act 2011 with the exception of subsection (3) which will be repealed by section 25(11) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014.
10 September, 2015
New regulations that introduce a new prescribed form for a notice under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 informing a tenant that the landlord intends to seek recovery of possession of a property let on an assured shorthold tenancy, and additionally specifies existing obligations with which landlords must comply if they wish to make use of the section 21 eviction procedure.
9 September, 2015
Briefing explains that Bill, which has secured Government support, is seeking to bring most Crown tenancies created after it comes into force within the assured tenancy regime governed by the 1988 Housing Act.
8 September, 2015
Response to Freedom of Information request, reported by the BBC, also shows that 25 of the 31 councils moved homeless households to other parts of the south east, and eight councils moved people to temporary accommodation in the Midlands and the north of England.
7 September, 2015
New paper considers evidence of London's housing crisis; how much additional housing is needed; and the barriers and potential solutions to the issue arising from a selection of research projects.
4 September, 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 952
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