23 Elm Way, London NW10 0NG
LON/00AE/HMF/2023/0269 · Brent · decided 2 May 2024 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Unlicensed HMO |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 3 tenants |
| Rent | £500 per month |
| Period the order relates to | 1 Sep 2022 to 31 Aug 2023 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked) |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £4,500 per applicant on average; £13,500 in total for 3 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | 75%, as the tribunal stated it |
| Tribunal fees to be reimbursed | £300 |
| Rules | Old 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; the maximum is left out of the statistics until it has been checked.
From the tribunal's reasons on the amount
Accordingly, at stage (c), we assess the RRO at 70% of the total possible. … It is, of course, a basic obligation on a tenant to pay the rent, and they should have done so. … So we think we should take account of the failure to pay rent, but not to see it as weighing as heavily as rent arrears usually would do. … It claimed £1,000 as outstanding for October, £2,500 for November, and for December £9,300, described as “rolling at £300 a day”. … Set against the history of the wholesale failure of the Respondents to adhere to their obligations as landlords, this invoice, and the charges associated with it, appear to us to be most reprehensible. The claimed charge for December has no possible basis, and can only be interpreted as an attempt (albeit cack- handed) to intimidate tenants making valid and genuine complaints. … Had it not been for the failure of the Applicants to pay their rent for the last period, we would have added 10% to reflect this conduct. As it is, we add 5%. … In the result, we conclude that the RRO should be set at 75% of the maximum possible.
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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