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LON/00BN/HNA/2023/0046 · Waltham Forest · decided 15 Jan 2024 · rent repayment order

old rules

Other ruling: the tribunal did not make a rent repayment order in this decision. See the original for its reasons.

OffenceUnlicensed HMO
LandlordCompany
Applicants4 tenants
Rentnot stated as one figure
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

has fixed the relevant breach before the expiry of the time for making representations. The second is a further reduction of 20 per cent of the original amount, if payment is made within 28 days of the original notice. … It was, however, her superior who made the decision to issue the two notices and the amount of the financial penalty. … She said that she treated the appellant as an experienced landlord, having been in the business since 2007. … She considered that there were no mitigating features at all, because the matters raised by the appellant did not relate to the failure to licence. Once the 20 per cent automatic discount for remedying the breach was applied, the financial penalty was reduced to £12,000 with a further reduction to £9,000 if swift payment were made. … In the current case, we bear in mind that the Council’s policy is not be treated as if it were a statute. Instead, it is a policy document and has to be read in that context. … She decided that this was an experienced managing agent. In accordance with the policy she therefore placed the offending in band 4 at £15,000. Even if she erred in considering that there was no mitigation, she could only have gone out of band 4 if there had been exceptional mitigation. Given there was no exceptional mitigation, the £15,000 start and end point was precisely right. …

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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Past decisions are not a prediction. The tribunal decides each case on its facts, including the landlord's and tenant's conduct.

The rules are explained by Shelter and on GOV.UK.