Tag Archive for 'unlawful sublet'

A locked room mystery

By NL on 17/05/2010. 2 Comments

LB Lambeth v Emeter [2010] EWCA Civ 527 [not on Baili, note from a transcript]

This was a renewed permission to appeal hearing which foundered on Mr Emeter’s complete lack of Agatha Christie-esque skills in plotting, detail and making evidence ambiguous.

Mr E was a secure tenant of Lambeth. He obtained the tenancy in 1997 on the basis of a homeless application, stating that he and his 18 month old son had been thrown out by his wife, with whom an elder child stayed. Lambeth served an NTQ in July 2007 and brought possession proceedings on the grounds that this was wholly untrue, that Mr E continued to live with … Read the full post

Posted in FLW case note, Housing law - All, Licences and occupiers, Possession and secure-tenancy. Tags: , .

Events, dear boy, events…

By NL on 31/03/2010. 0 Comments

A couple of bits of news.

First, John Healey, the shy and self-effacing Housing Minister, announced his intention to make unlawful sub-letting a criminal offence. That said, the DCLG press release rather jumps the gun by describing the sub-lettings as fraudulent. In the smaller print, the ‘shop a sub-let and win £500‘ campaign and the £4 million of Govt support for Councils to ‘crack down’ on sub-letting appear to be less than dramatically successful. Precisely one ‘reward’ has been handed out, in West London, although we are assured that ‘further claims are in the pipeline’. The overall crackdown has resulted in Councils and PRPSHs (nee RSLs) recovering 350 … Read the full post

Posted in Allocation, assured-tenancy, Housing law - All, Possession and secure-tenancy. Tags: , , .

Shop an unlawful sub-tenant, win £500

By NL on 30/11/2009. 10 Comments

The Government has decided to have a campaign against unlawful sub-tenancies of social housing, or rather against the unlawful landlords and tenants both. The estimated figures are that between 50,000 and 200,000 social properties are occupied by unauthorised occupants and, given the utter lack of social housing and a waiting list estimated at at least 1.8 million households, they want something done.

What is to be done is apparently to pay tenants £500 to shop an unauthorised neighbour. M

Local authorities are “expected to target 8,000 tenancy cheats in a first wave of investigations this week across 145 local authorities after a trawl of council records by the Audit Commission”. That … Read the full post

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If you missed it…

By NL on 26/03/2009. 0 Comments

There was a piece broadcast on Radio 5 live about illegal subletting, I think it was on last Sunday, 22 March. It is available as a podcast until Sunday 29 March here or can be played/downloaded as an mp3.

Many thanks to Ruth, the producer, for the link.… Read the full post

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