103 St Marys Mansions, St Marys Terrace, London W2 1SY
LON/00BK/HMF/2024/0204 · Westminster · decided 15 May 2025 · rent repayment order
old rulesDismissed: the tribunal did not make a rent repayment order in this decision. See the original for its reasons.
| Offence | Unlicensed HMO |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 1 tenant |
| Rent | not stated as one figure |
| Period the order relates to | 1 Dec 2022 to ? |
| 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
(2) A tenant may apply for a rent repayment order only if — (a)the offence relates to housing that, at the time of the offence, was let to the tenant, and (b)the offence was committed in the period of 12 months ending with the day on which the application is made. … (2) A rent repayment order under this section may be made only on an application under section 41. … A RRO can only be made in this case if the tribunal is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that that the respondent committed a relevant offence of being in control of or managing an unlicenced HMO. Leaving aside the question as to the identity of the licence holder, the Respondent in this case cannot have committed any offence unless the premises fulfilled the definition of a HMO set out in s.245 and paragraph 7 of schedule 14 of the Housing Act 2004; i.e. occupied by 3 or more persons consisting of two or more households as their main residence. … He did not know where precisely this was but believed it was near Milton Keynes. … From his observations he concluded that the only occupant at that time was the Applicant. … She told the Tribunal that this was paid as a ‘room reservation fee’. … The letter states that she moved out of the property in early November 2022. …
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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