Tag Archive for 'underoccupation'

Councils bribing tenants shock!

By NL on 07/02/2009. 9 Comments

In apparent confirmation both that the Times is now a tabloid newspaper and that today was a quiet news day, this was the lead story in Saturday’s Times.

I’ll just quote the opening sentence:

Council tenants are being offered £30,000 bribes or cottages by the sea to vacate their homes for credit crunch victims as Britain faces a critical social housing shortage.

The only accurate part of that is the social housing shortage. Funny how that only becomes news when Times readers are getting worried they might need social housing themselves. Nonetheless, there is a critical social housing shortage and it is a serious issue. Sadly not one the Times … Read the full post

Posted in Housing law - All and secure-tenancy. Tags: private tenancy, secure-tenancy, social housing, underoccupation.

‛simply wrong-headed’

By NL on 25/04/2008. 0 Comments

Apparently Wandsworth are very very unhappy with the Court of Appeal judgment in Wandsworth v Randall on underoccupation possessions via ground 16 HA 1985. So unhappy that they are lobbying Caroline Flint to change the law via the Housing and Regeneration bill.

There are, of course, extremely good policy reasons for underoccupation possessions. Multiple bedroom council properties are in extremely short supply and demand is high.

Wandsworth, however, are putting more than a little spin on this. Martin Johnson, Cabinet member for housing said:

Our concern is the Court of Appeal judgement provides an incentive for underoccupying successor tenants to artificially increase their household as a way to defeat such
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Posted in Housing law - All and Possession. Tags: Housing law - All, law, Possession, underoccupation.