Sentences with phrase «social landlords»

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

Further, although mortgage lenders have to produce a checklist to the court to confirm compliance with the Protocol, no checklist is required from social landlords.

Views are also sought from practitioners such as social landlords and local authorities who use such orders and may feel the relief is being effectively and properly used.

The spending review announced plans to allow social landlords to charge new social tenants intermediate rental contracts at rent levels of up to 80 % of market rates.

It was suggested that in some circumstances social landlords have to be prepared to take a more active role of checking on their housing stock.

He has particular experience of representing lenders in claims for forfeiture of long residential leases and registered social landlords in claims for possession and injunctions on the grounds of anti-social behaviour.

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 Welfare Reform and Work Act (2016) requires social landlords to reduce their rents by one per cent.

Paul Peter Smith Unlike the other signatories, the UK has local councils that are also social landlords.

The Liberal Democrats are calling on ministers to explore how social landlords could be helped to buy up property to prevent a «fire sale» in the housing market.

I have worked closely with many social landlords and local authorities for nearly 20 years and, as such, I have an in - depth knowledge and understanding of the pressures and concerns facing landlords in increasingly competitive and difficult times.

The entire housing sector was in support of our bid for further powers on housing: local authorities; organisations that represent social landlords; businesses and charities such as Shelter Cymru, Community Housing Cymru, the Chartered institute of Housing.

Charities, housing co-operatives, the Housing Corporation and social landlords not in receipt of public funds are not subject to Right to Buy.

There's nothing new in the police being able to force people to remove facemasks or in social landlords evicting tenants found guilty of looting.

Dave Johnson, Consultants Framework Manager at Fusion21, said: «This OJEU compliant framework provides access to a wealth of consultancy knowledge and expertise and will save Fusion21 members — including social landlords, local authorities, NHS trusts, education institutions and blue light organisations — time, resources and cost efficiencies.

«I think social landlords are the ideal organisations to take up this method of building and prioritise it,» he says.

Jennifer Oscroft Specialises in defending local housing authorities and social landlords against public law challenges, offering particularly valuable insight into the housing implications of the Public Sector Equality Duty.

In his role in housing litigation he represents local authorities and social landlords mainly focusing on anti-social behaviour and breach of tenancy matters.

Mitchell v. Glasgow City Council2009 SC (HL) 24; [2009] 1 AC 874; [2009] 2 WLR 481 House of Lords; Negligence at Common law - whether social landlord owed a duty to protect one of its tenants from assault at the hands of another tenant; Article 2 ECHR - duty to give warning.

My clients include landlords (specifically social landlords / housing associations) and local authorities and my work comprises a mix of advising on contentious landlord and tenant matters across all forms of tenure, including secure and assured tenancies and leases, and conducting litigation, involving issues such as on matters such as disrepair, possession, subletting and nuisance from the first stages through to completion.

The Pinnock judgment will affect all possession claims where social landlords seek mandatory possession orders.

By and large, registered social landlords use a model form of lease which is published and revised from time to time by the Housing Corporation.

«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.

This will require social landlords to consider the proportionality and reasonableness of their actions.»

We provide specialist assistance to social landlords in all aspects of tenancy enforcement and dealing with issues of nuisance behaviour and / or criminal activity within their estates and communities.

This plan includes a huge regeneration project in the Anfield area with a deal between the Premier League club and the social landlord Your Housing Group.

«Experience from the past suggests that stopping direct payments to social landlords will simply lead to an increase in arrears and evictions,» Hodge added.

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.

She routinely acts for both public and private clients, including tenants, social landlords and local authorities.

Hardwicke is called upon by a number of local authorities, social landlords and housing associations to tackle the full range of social housing matters.

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.

We act for local planning authorities, developers, landowners, mortgagees and Registered Social Landlords.

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.

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).

Social Housing We work with registered social landlords (RSL's) and housing co-operatives, providing a full range of legal services for tenancy management....

Marie trained at a high street firm in Bromley and qualified in 2002 and has acted exclusively for private and social landlords.

We currently provide expert practical legal advice to Registered Social Landlords (RSL) and Local Authority clients.

We acted for a client after his social landlord, Genesis, sought to evict him.

In recent years, protocols have been introduced in arrears cases involving mortgages and social landlords to encourage greater communication and dialogue between the parties before court action.

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.

These obligations apply equally to social landlords as well as private landlords and the responsibility for any failure to comply with this, falls squarely at the landlord's feet.

Akerman - Livingstone v Aster Communities Ltd [2015] UKSC 15 [2015] 2 WLR 721 Dan was instructed in the Supreme Court by the respondent, a social landlord, resisting an appeal by a tenant against whom possession had been granted summarily by the county court.

In this time that unit has developed unrivalled expertise in acting with social landlords to tackle anti-social behaviour and illegal activity within their housing stock.

It was held that a registered social landlord was a public authority for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998 in respect of the management and allocation of its housing stock and, thus, amenable to judicial review.