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Flat 2. Block A. City View Jesmond, Eskdale Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4DD

MAN/00CJ/HMF/2019/0022 · Newcastle upon Tyne · decided 15 Jan 2020 · rent repayment order

old rules

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

OffenceUnlicensed HMO
LandlordCompany: SSG Property Developments Limited
Applicants15 tenants
Rent£476.67 per month
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

(set out in Section 44(4)). … The cases of all Applicants were very similar. The properties, the leases, the relevant factual matters surrounding the alleged offences, the statements of case, the supporting documentation, and the landlord, were very similar. The Tribunal, for simplicity, has therefore summarised all the statements of case into a single composite statement, which excludes certain matters not deemed to be relevant. … While many of the tenancy agreements were signed on different dates, they all granted tenancies for a period of 43 weeks from 3rd September 2018, at rents of £110 per week, payable monthly in advance. … Further, the manager had not applied for such a licence until 3rd January 2019. A copy of the relevant licence (in the bundle) showed that the date of the licence was 15th February (Flat 3), 4th February 2019 (Flat 4), and both for a period of 5 years expiring on 3rd January 2024. … Many of the Flat 2 Applicants had mistakenly copied the licence for Flat 4 in their bundles. However, none of the parties have taken that point and so the Tribunal is prepared to accept that a licence for Flat 2 was applied for and granted at about the same time. … This however is a matter governed by the legislation. Evidence of rents paid during the relevant period was mostly available in the bundles. …

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.

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