Flat LG05, The Beaux Arts Building, 10-18 Manor Gardens, London, N7 6JT
LON/00AU/HMJ/2024/0002 · Islington · decided 12 Nov 2024 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Unlicensed house (selective licensing) |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Company: Holaw 479 Limited |
| Applicants | 2 tenants |
| Rent | £1,900 per month |
| Period the order relates to | 17 Feb 2023 to 17 Feb 2024 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked); £450 then deducted for utilities |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £2,235 per applicant on average; £4,470 in total for 2 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | 20%, as the tribunal stated it |
| Tribunal fees to be reimbursed | £320 |
| 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
failure to licence the property. … Here, she had a great deal of experience of residential property management in general and of licencing obligations in particular. … We accept that the Applicants should have passed on the letter of 4 October 2023 to the Respondent. It is true that it was not strictly a “notice, order or legal proceedings”, so there may not have technically been a breach of the tenancy agreement. It was, however, addressed to the “owner/landlord”, and even if opened in error should have been passed on to the Respondent thereafter. However, a council is not obliged to inform every landlord in person of a licensing requirement, and the failure of an attempt to do so, even if wrongly intercepted, does not negative a landlord’s obligation to understand its obligations and to adhere to them. The amount of the RRO 37. … What proportion of the rent (after deduction as above) is a fair reflection of the seriousness of this offence? … We add that at stage (d), it is also appropriate to consider any other of the circumstances of the case that the Tribunal considers relevant. … It is an assessment of the conduct of the landlord specifically in the context of the offence itself; how badly has this landlord behaved in committing the offence? I have set it out as a separate step because it is the matter that has most frequently been overlooked.” 40. …
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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