Flat 19, Tannery House, 6 Deal Street, London E1 5AG
LON/00BG/HMF/2020/0076 · Tower Hamlets · decided 1 Mar 2022 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Unlicensed house (selective licensing) |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 2 tenants |
| Rent | not stated as one figure |
| Period the order relates to | 23 Sep 2018 to 22 Jun 2019 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked) |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £8,892 per applicant on average; £17,784 in total for 2 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | 80%, 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; the maximum is left out of the statistics until it has been checked.
From the tribunal's reasons on the amount
The remote video hearing in this case took place on 15 December 2021. … The Respondent’s primary case was that because she was unaware of the requirement to obtain a licence she was afforded the defence of reasonable excuse1. … In the alternative, in June 2020 she applied for a licence she was advised that the property was exempt from the licensing scheme because she had stated on the application form that the property was her residential address from time to time. Therefore, the exemption operated retrospectively. … In cross-examination, the Respondent stated that, in addition to this property, she owned another property in the same block on a shared ownership basis and another property in Greenwich, all of which were let as part of her pension plan. … The Respondent said that, save for the omission to obtain a licence, she had adhered to all of her other statutory obligations as a landlord. … Nevertheless, she still used their website to carry out reference checks for prospective tenants and still received their emails about relevant legal changes affecting landlords. … In the alternative, she contended for an award of 90%. … It follows that the only issues before the Tribunal were whether a rent repayment order should be made against the Respondent and, if so, to assess the quantum of any such order. …
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
This decision replaces an earlier one for the same case: 1 Mar 2022.
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