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8 Hibernia Road, Hounslow, TW3 3RY

LON/00AT/HMF/2019/0097 · Hounslow · decided 15 Dec 2020 · rent repayment order

old rules
OffenceUnlicensed HMO
LandlordIndividual
Applicants2 tenants
Rent£850 per month
Period the order relates to16 Dec 2018 to 31 Aug 2019
Maximum the tribunal could awardnot stated as one figure (or not yet checked)
Amount the tribunal ordered£2,857.50 per applicant on average; £5,715 in total for 2 applicants
Share of the maximumnot stated
Tribunal fees to be reimbursed£100
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; the maximum is left out of the statistics until it has been checked.

From the tribunal's reasons on the amount

(b) pay a local housing authority an amount in respect of a relevant award of universal credit paid (to any person) in respect of rent under the tenancy.” 32. Section 40(3) a list of seven offences. This includes an offence under section 72(1) of the 2004 Act of “control or management of an unlicenced HMO”. … (2) A tenant may apply for a rent repayment order only if — (a) the offence relates to housing that, at the time of the offence, was let to the tenant, and (b) the offence was committed in the period of 12 months ending with the day on which the application is made. … Section 44 is concerned with the amount payable under a RRO made in favour of a tenant. By section 44(2) that amount “must relate to rent paid during the period mentioned” in a table which then follows. The table provides for repayment of rent paid by the tenant in respect of a maximum period of 12 months. … Section 61 provides for every prescribed HMO to be licensed. …

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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