84 Heyscroft Road, Withington, Manchester, M20 4UZ
MAN/00BN/HMF/2019/0074 · Manchester · decided 4 Dec 2019 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Unlicensed house (selective licensing) |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 4 tenants |
| Rent | not stated as one figure |
| Period the order relates to | 1 Oct 2018 to ? |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked) |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £520 per applicant on average; £2,080 in total for 4 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | not stated |
| 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
Submissions 18 The Tribunal received very limited witness statements from the Applicants and the Respondents which limited themselves to the very narrow factual situation which had occurred and although it is not entirely clear from the way that they have expressed themselves, it would appear that the Respondents accept liability for failing to licence, but outline extenuating circumstances surrounding that failure. 19 There also appear to be no issues raised about either the amount of rent paid by each of the Applicants, or that the application is made within the time limits provided by Section 41 (The licence application was effective in May 2019, to bring any offence to an end and the Application made in September. Decision 20 The Tribunal considers that it is appropriate to consider whether an appropriate offence has been committed. The Application for an order rests upon such a finding and the Respondents do raise certain issues that might affect the issue of liability. 21 The most relevant of these offences to the matter now before the Tribunal is that of an offence under items 5/6 in paragraph 15, above, being the offence under Section 95(1) Housing Act 2004 of having control of or managing a house required to be licenced… but is not so licenced. …
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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