10 Harland Heights, 1 Wallis Walk, Becton, London, E16 2XR
LON/00BB/HMF/2023/0318 · Newham · decided 28 Aug 2024 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Unlicensed house (selective licensing) |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Company: ERG RAW Limited |
| Applicants | 2 tenants |
| Rent | £1,225 per month |
| Period the order relates to | 22 Apr 2022 to 5 Jul 2023 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | £10,000.28 |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £3,250 per applicant on average; £6,500 in total for 2 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | 65%, 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.
From the tribunal's reasons on the amount
taken account of the guidance provided by the Upper Tribunal, including particularly where the Upper Tribunal has substituted percentage reductions in making a redetermination. … We do not repeat that material here, but have been guided by it. … As we have said, we do not think that the Respondent can properly be said (quite) to have deliberately failed to licence, but it certainly falls into the category of commercial landlord, and one with a larger portfolio. We do not think, where there is no evidence or allegation of disrepair or fire safety failures that that alone puts this case into the highest category, but it is significant. … Failure to licence was not (really) deliberate, and there is no issue of condition. … In that case, there were some (but not at the highest level of seriousness) improvements necessary, but, contrariwise, that is off set in this case by the larger, more commercial nature of the landlord. … We accordingly conclude that the right figure is 65%.
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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