Sentences with phrase «registered social landlords»

Government guidance to local authorities on family and friends care states that housing authorities and registered social landlords should have policies that recognise the importance of the role performed by family and friends carers, and that whenever possible family and friends carers living in social housing should be given appropriate priority to move to more suitable accommodation if this will prevent the need for a child to become looked after.

In R (on the application of Weaver) v London and Quadrant Housing Trust, the court held that some registered social landlords (RSLs) will now be treated as public authorities and therefore be subject to the HRA 1998.

The High Court has already distinguished YL and held that many registered social landlords, in receipt of a large element of public subsidy and used as a means of achieving governmental policy in relation to affordable housing, are, in allocating and managing social housing, exercising public functions.

Certainly surplus publicly owned land should be assessed with a view to donating it in appropriate areas to registered social landlords or mutual associations for affordable housing.

Decisions on how much to charge tenants are made by registered social landlords, following dialogue between local authorities and housing associations.

«Right to Buy landlords» include not only local housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public bodies.

The management and allocation of housing stock by a registered social landlord is a function of a public nature and the landlord is, therefore, a public authority for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998).

The claimant was an assured tenant of the defendant, which was a registered social landlord (RSL).

The management and allocation of housing stock by a housing trust which is a registered social landlord under the Housing Act 1996, including decisions concerning the termination of a tenancy, is a function of a public nature, with the effect that the registered social landlord is to regarded as a public authority for the purposes of s 6 (3)(b) of the Human Rights Act 1998 and so is amenable to judicial review on conventional public law grounds in respect of its performance of that function.

In reaching this decision the following were considered to be decisive factors: (i) LQHT was permeated with state control and influence with a view to meeting the government's aims for aff ordable housing; (ii) the nature and extent of the public subsidy of LQHT's activities; (iii) 10 % of LQHT's stock had been transferred to it from the public sector; (iv) that LQHT, as a registered social landlord, was obliged to cooperate with the local authority, if requested, in offering accommodation to people with priority under the authority's allocation scheme; (v) the termination of a tenancy could not be regarded as separate from housing management so as to be considered an act of a private nature.

The applicants were homeless people who were accommodated under HA 1996, Pt 7 in assured shorthold tenancy accommodation, held by a registered social landlord under a fixed - term lease of 10 years.

The householder pays the registered social landlord a capital sum equivalent to half of what it would have cost to buy the property outright.

Operating under charitable rules, Albyn Housing Society is the leading registered social landlord for the Highlands.

Not exact matches

Please note that this requirement does not apply to registered providers of social housing or if a landlord has already provided the tenant with an up to date version of the booklet under an earlier tenancy.

He specialises in leasehold matters and commonly works with social housing landlords, arm's length management organisations, Registered Providers, and others.