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Apartment 11, St Slyvesters Church, 25 Silvester Street, Vauxhall, Liverpool, L5 8SE ,0016 and 0017

MAN/00BY/HMF/2022/0015 · Liverpool · decided 28 Mar 2023 · rent repayment order

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OffenceUnlicensed HMO
LandlordCompany: Trophy Homes Ltd
Applicants3 tenants
Rent£511.33 per month
Period the order relates to1 Sep 2021 to 30 Jun 2022
Maximum the tribunal could awardnot stated as one figure (or not yet checked); £1,557.60 then deducted for utilities
Amount the tribunal ordered£4,672.80 per applicant on average; £14,018.40 in total for 3 applicants
Share of the maximumnot stated
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; the maximum is left out of the statistics until it has been checked.

From the tribunal's reasons on the amount

(b) pay a local housing authority an amount in respect of a relevant award of universal credit paid (to any person) in respect of rent under the tenancy. … (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. … (2) The amount must relate to rent paid during the period mentioned in the table. If the order is made on the ground the amount must relate to rent paid by the t hat the landlord has committed tenant in respect of an offence mentioned in row 1 or 2 the period of 12 months ending with the date of o f the table in section 40(3) the offence an offence mentioned in row 3, 4, 5, a period, not exceeding 12 months, during 6 or 7 of the table in section 40(3) which the landlord was committing the offence (3) The amount that the landlord may be required to repay in respect of a period must not exceed— (a) the rent paid in respect of that period, less (b) any relevant award of universal credit paid (to any person) in respect of rent under the tenancy during that period.

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.