Tag Archive for 'TSA'

These we have missed/didn’t know about

By NL on 17/05/2010. 0 Comments

As ever, the Housing updates in Legal Action for May 2010 contains news of a few homelessness cases that are otherwise unreported and which hadn’t reached us – primarily County Court decisions or applications for permission for JR or appeal that didn’t make Bailii or elsewhere.

Human Rights
Slough BC v Aden [2009] EWCA Civ 1541
Application for permission to appeal on the basis that the provision of a non secure periodic tenancy of a hostel room under the homelessness provisions of Part VII Housing Act 1996 was incompatible with Art 8 of the ECHR. Mr Aden had been found not to be in priority need and an NTQ served … Read the full post

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Rent arrears management – boring title, excellent report

By J on 10/03/2010. 0 Comments

Is it too much to hope that – finally – the Government might take steps to ameliorate and / or prevent the use of Ground 8?

During the passage of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, the Government gave a commitment to look again at the use of inter alia, Ground 8 in the social housing sector.

A group of scholars was assembled for this purpose: Pawson, Sosenko, Cowan, Croft, Cole and Hunter and, they have now reported. I suggest everyone reads “rent arrears management practices in the housing assocation sector” because, frankly, it is an impressive piece of work, detailing historic, current … Read the full post

Posted in Allocation, Assured Shorthold tenancy, assured-tenancy, Benefits, FLW article, Housing law - All and Possession. Tags: , , .

Its all in the name

By J on 21/01/2010. 1 Comment

The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Registration of Local Authorities) Order 2010 has just been laid before Parliament in draft form, to come into effect on April 1, 2010. A copy is available here.

In short, it makes it compulsory for local authorities which provide or intend to provide social housing to register with the TSA.

In addition, in what I can only presume is some misguided attempt to minimise Weaver, RSLs in England will now be known as “private registered providers” in contrast to “registered providers” as the 2008 Act originally provided.

Come on DCLG – if you want to get around Weaver you’ll have to … Read the full post

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

Telling the TSA what to do

By NL on 12/11/2009. 0 Comments

The Government in the form of the DCLG has issued its response to consultation on the directions it is to give the Tenant Services Authority under s.197 Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 and also the directions on regulatory standards themselves. The directions for social housing relate to rent, quality of accommodation and involvement of tenants in management of housing. The paper and directions are here [link to PDF]. The directions start at page 22 of the pdf.

It might be worth noting the following in the directions:

Quality of accommodation
2.—(1) The TSA shall set a standard relating to the quality of accommodation (“the Quality of Accommodation Standard”).
(2) In … Read the full post

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

Extending the role of the TSA

By J on 07/08/2009. 2 Comments

The Government has just issued a consultation paper (available here) on extending the TSAs regulatory role to local housing authorities. Whilst the document is expressed to be a consultation, the tone of the document suggests that the Government is already minded to take such a step. April 2010 is expressly identified as the likely date for the new regulatory function to commence. The headlines include:

  • the TSA being asked to focus on “landlord services” (repairs, maintenance and customer services) and not wider strategic functions;
  • where the TSA has evidence of poor performance, it will be empowered to commission an investigation and require further information to be provided. Conversely, where

    • … Read the full post

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Tales from the pink campervan

By Dave on 19/06/2009. 0 Comments

The Tenants Services Authority (the new regulatory body for RSLs and, from April 2010, local authorities) has been holding a “national conversation” with tenants, touring round in a pink campervan amongst other engagement techniques. The outcome from that, and from broader regulatory conversations one suspects, is Building a New Regulatory Framework: A Discussion Paper. This is destined to be an important document when finalised – comments are due by 08 September 2009 and can be addressed to national.conversation@tsa.dsx.gov.uk – in part because of its (ir-)relevance when thinking about a jr (after Weaver) but, most significantly because of the regulatory standards it will lay down for tenants and landlords (now … Read the full post

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