34 Howard Street, Reading, RG1 7XS
CAM/00MC/HMC/2025/0004 · Reading · decided 1 Dec 2025 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Improvement notice not complied with |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 1 tenant |
| Rent | £595 per month |
| Period the order relates to | 6 Nov 2024 to 18 Jul 2025 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked) |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £2,856 (1 applicant) |
| Share of the maximum | not stated |
| Tribunal fees to be reimbursed | £300 |
| Rules | Old rules (offence before 1 May 2026): maximum 12 months' rent. |
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From the tribunal's reasons on the amount
section 44(3) of the Act? … Section 44(2) provides that in a case of failure to comply with an improvement notice, the amount of the rent repayment order must relate to rent “paid” during the period in which the landlord was committing the offence. … The period of the commission of the offence was 6 November 2024 to 18 July 2025. … The Applicant clarified in evidence that he continued to pay £595 pm after 1 May 2025, being the date of the last documentary evidence of proof of payment; that he has paid at all times up to 18 July 2025 and indeed beyond. We believe the Applicant, and the Respondent led no contrary evidence. … We did not have any figures at all for utilities costs, not even an imprecise figure, so we have been unable on the evidence to determine any relevant deduction. … In the instant case there was no payment after 18 July 2025 by the tenant. … In that case, the tenants paid 6 months rent in advance before the offence of failing to licence was ever committed. They paid none during the period of the offence. The UT refused to interfere with the FTT’s decision that rent was not paid during the period of the landlord’s offence, so a RRO could not be made. …
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The original
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