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49 Kelland Road, London, E13 8DS

LON/00BB/HSR/2015/0015 · Newham · decided 4 Apr 2016 · 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£675 per month
Period the order relates to5 Sep 2013 to 6 Aug 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

(a) is not actually paid by an occupier but is used by him to discharge the whole or part of his liability in respect of a periodical payment (for example, by offsetting the amount against any such liability), and (b) is not an amount of housing benefit, is to be regarded as an amount paid by the occupier in respect of that periodical payment 97 Further provisions about rent repayment orders (1) This section applies in relation to orders made by residential property tribunals under section 96(5). (2) Where, on an application by the local housing authority, the tribunal is satisfied— (a) that a person has been convicted of an offence under section 95(1) in relation to the house, and (b) that housing benefit was paid (whether or not to the appropriate person) in respect of periodical payments payable in connection with occupation of the whole or any part or parts of the house during any period during which it appears to the tribunal that such an offence was being committed in relation to the house, the tribunal must make a rent repayment order requiring the appropriate person to pay to the authority an amount equal to the total amount of housing benefit paid as mentioned in paragraph (b). This is subject to subsections (3), (4) and (8). …

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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