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Not another review …

By Dave on 22/01/2009. 0 Comments

Yes, it’s true, another review has been published, this time of the regulation and redress in the UK housing market. And yes, if you’re wondering, this was what the Law Commission did in their Issues paper on proportionate dispute resolution and further analysis. The author this time is Professor Colin Jones, whose biog does not suggest that he has ever been particularly interested, if at all, in this issue although that may be a little unfair. Actually, what he has done here is quite respectable to a point and worthy (in contrast to the disastrous Rugg and Rhodes report – for our review, see here).

Prof Jones … Read the full post

Posted in Assured Shorthold tenancy, Housing law - All and Regulation and planning. Tags: , , , , , , .

The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 – an update

By J on 28/11/2008. 0 Comments

Two new Statutory Instruments have just come out relating to this Act, and, given that I’m updating my seminar notes about the 2008 Act, I thought I’d share them with you.

The Allocation of Housing (England) (Amendment) (Family Intervention Tenancies) Regulations 2008 deal with the interaction between the new Family Intervention Tenancy (“FIT”)in the 2008 Act and Part 6, Housing Act 1996. In broad terms, Part 6 of the 1996 Act, and the subordinate SIs, deal with the rules and procedure for the allocation of property by local housing authorities.

What the 2008 SI does is to disapply Part 6 in relation to the FIT, so that any local housing … Read the full post

Posted in Allocation, ASB, Housing law - All and Regulation and planning. Tags: , , , , , , .

New PRS Report

By Dave on 25/10/2008. 0 Comments

Ok, I’m angry again.  It’s really out of character as I’m usually very mild mannered.  Here’s a question: what do you do if you’ve paid a group of people over around 10 years to come up with a series of proposals to regulate renting relationships (ie the Law commission) but you can’t live with their final reports?  Well, you could do nothing, which was the government’s preferred strategy, but a lot of people out there think that the Law Commission’s suggestions were pretty sensible (although I’m in the “some good, some daft” category) and those people are beating the drum.  Alternative strategy: pay somebody else to come up with a … Read the full post

Posted in Assured Shorthold tenancy, assured-tenancy, Housing law - All, Regulation and planning and secure-tenancy. Tags: , , , .

So what

By Dave on 20/08/2008. 3 Comments

Seven and a half years on, the Law Commission has now completed its work on the reform of housing law with the publication of its final report, Housing: Encouraging Responsible Letting. The Consultation Paper, on which this report is based, voted in favour of a scheme of enforced self-regulation, a scheme with some bite. That has been dropped in this report which now makes various tinkering suggestions such as a national private landlord accreditation scheme and a single code of good housing management practice. The one solid proposal with which everyone can agree (presumably) is the need for a proper regulatory scheme for letting agents. Their major proposal is … Read the full post

Posted in Assured Shorthold tenancy, Housing law - All and Regulation and planning. Tags: , , , .
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