8 Molyneux Street, London W1H 5HP
LON/00BK/HMA/2017/0003 · Westminster · decided 12 Oct 2017 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Unlicensed HMO |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Company: PML Services Ltd |
| Applicants | 5 tenants |
| Rent | not stated as one figure |
| Period the order relates to | 25 Apr 2016 to 27 Oct 2016 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked) |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £1,160 per applicant on average; £5,800 in total for 5 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | not stated |
| Tribunal fees to be reimbursed | £700 |
| 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
during which an offence was being committed. It is common ground that the offence was committed from the start of the letting of the Property without the requisite licence, with 9 July 2015 being the earliest date two of the Applicants started to pay rent. … Assuming that this figure holds good for the entire period, that would mean an income for the Property of £122,808.42 from 9 July 2015 to 27 October 2016. For the avoidance of doubt, this is for the whole Property as opposed to the sums paid by the Applicants and is therefore probably more than simply the “relevant” payments. A reduction to reflect that 5 of the 7 Applicants issued the application would reduce this figure to £87,720. … Secondly, the conduct of the Respondent. … The Respondent maintained that the Applicants appeared very happy with their accommodation, pointing out the renewal of their “licences to occupy” on several occasions. The Respondent also maintained that its failure to obtain a licence was due to a “misunderstanding”, as opposed to a deliberate attempt to flout the law. … The Tribunal does consider the Respondent’s conduct to be unsatisfactory. … As indicated in the background section above, the correspondence with Westminster contains several serious inaccuracies about the nature of the Applicant’s role. …
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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