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17 Wisdons Close, Dagenham, RM10 7HB

LON/00AB/HMF/2025/0618 · Barking and Dagenham · decided 1 Oct 2025 · rent repayment order

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

OffenceUnlicensed house (selective licensing)
LandlordIndividual
Applicants2 tenants
Rentnot stated as one figure
Period the order relates to12 Feb 2023 to 11 Feb 2024
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

repaid. Based on the above findings, we have the power to make a rent repayment order against the Respondents. … The amount of rent to be ordered to be repaid is governed by section 44 of the 2016 Act. Under sub-section 44(2), the amount must relate to rent paid by the tenants in respect of a period, not exceeding 12 months, during which the landlord was committing the offence. Under sub- section 44(3), the amount that the landlord may be required to repay in respect of a period must not exceed the rent paid in respect of that period less any relevant award of housing benefit or universal credit paid in respect of rent under the tenancy during that period. … Albeit that the Applicants seek a rent repayment order in the total sum of £14,400, analysis of the uncontested evidence reveals that the entirety of the rent paid to the Respondents during the relevant period, was slightly lower, £14,100. … We are satisfied on the basis of the evidence that the Applicants were in occupation for the whole of the period to which this rent repayment application relates and that the Property required a licence for the whole of that period. Therefore, the maximum sum that can be awarded by way of rent repayment is the sum of £14,100, this being the amount paid by the Applicants by way of rent in respect of the period of claim. …

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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Past decisions are not a prediction. The tribunal decides each case on its facts, including the landlord's and tenant's conduct.

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