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392A Barking Road, London E13 8HJ

LON/00BB/HMA/2014/0012 · Newham · decided 26 Mar 2015 · rent repayment order

old rulescouncil application

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

OffenceUnlicensed house (selective licensing)
LandlordIndividual
Applicantsthe council
Rent£650 per month
Period the order relates to17 Jun 2013 to 27 Jan 2014
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

respect of housing benefit calculated in accordance with the relevant legislation. Under section 96(7)(a), a tribunal may only make a rent repayment order for the repayment of housing benefit if satisfied that the local housing authority has served a notice of proceedings on the “appropriate person”. … Therefore, in order to make a rent repayment order, one matter on which we need to be satisfied is that the Respondent was the “appropriate person” as defined in section 96(10), namely that at the time of the payment of housing benefit he was entitled to receive that housing benefit “on his own account”. … The Respondent advised the Applicant as to the bank account into which he wanted the housing benefit to be paid, and housing benefit records show the payments being made into that account. … However, the copy office copies in the hearing bundle do not show the Respondent to have a property interest in the Property. … 392A, being the first floor of 392). There is no reference on the freehold office copy entries to the Respondent having an interest in the Property, whereas there is a note on those office copy entries that the ground floor of 392 is subject to a lease. … We have seen no tenancy agreement between the Respondent and the occupier. …

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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