8 McDougall House, Turin Street, London, E2 6BE
LON/00BG/HMF/2024/0631 · Tower Hamlets · decided 27 Aug 2025 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Unlicensed HMO |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 3 tenants |
| Rent | £2,600 per month |
| Period the order relates to | 6 Sep 2022 to 6 Feb 2024 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked) |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £7,206.67 per applicant on average; £21,620 in total for 3 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | 70%, 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
being “kept”. The evidence is not entirely clear as to how long the cat was present in the flat. … So on the face of it, it does seem reasonable to conclude that the cat was “kept” without the necessary consent. On the other hand, we doubt whether, if consent had been sought, it could reasonably have been withheld. … Our conclusion is that the cat probably was “kept”, and that constituted a breach, absent consent. However, we do not consider it a serious matter in assessing the conduct of the Applicants, as it occasioned no detriment to the landlord, and had consent been requested, it most probably would have to have been granted. … The nature of a landlord has been held to be relevant to the seriousness of the offence. … Rather, “The penalty appropriate to a particular offence must take account of all of the relevant circumstances”. In this case, we take into account the Respondent’s uncontested evidence that this is the only property she lets and that it was previously the family home. … We now turn to an aspect of this application which is of particular importance, the threatened counter-claim by the Respondent. … This was followed by a formal letter before action (as it described itself) which was emailed to the tenants on 30 April, two days before the hearing, and copied to them by post the next day. …
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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