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28 Bloomsbury Street, Birmingham, B7 5BS

BIR/00CN/HMK/2019/0009 · Birmingham · decided 22 May 2019 · rent repayment order

old rules

Dismissed: the tribunal did not make a rent repayment order in this decision. See the original for its reasons.

OffenceUnlicensed HMO
LandlordCompany: Wenlock Abbey Limited
Applicants5 tenants
Rent£2,275 per month
Period the order relates to1 Oct 2018 to 29 Nov 2018
RulesOld rules (offence before 1 May 2026): maximum 12 months' rent.

Read from the PDF automatically. Amounts are totals for the decision, across all its applicants.

From the tribunal's reasons on the amount

account the conduct of the landlord and the tenant, the financial circumstances of the Landlord and whether the landlord has been at any time convicted of a relevant offence (section 44(4)). The Tribunal cannot, however, make an additional award for “compensation for time wasted, aggravation and anxiety caused”, return of deposit or damage caused by mould and damp. … On 24th January 2019 the Tribunal issued Directions. … The Applicants are not content with a paper determination and this application was heard in Birmingham on 3rd May 2019. … Inspection. The Tribunal inspected the Property on the morning of the hearing. … The Property is entered via a small brick built porch with a flat roof. … Downstairs there is a bedroom, lounge, downstairs shower and toilet and a kitchen which has doors leading to the rear garden. The damage to the ceiling in the lounge from the upstairs bathroom had been repaired. The Applicants described the mould in the downstairs shower room/ toilet caused by water penetration from the external wall and porch roof. … Upstairs there are four bedrooms and a bathroom. The Applicants described how there had been mould in all bedrooms. Bedroom 1 at the front and bedroom 2 at the rear were worst affected. The Applicants described mould on the ceiling running for about 1 metre from the external walls. …

An extract from the part of the decision that sets the amount. To keep people's names out, any sentence that might contain one is left out (marked …). The full reasons are in the original decision.

The original

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