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HOUSING
LAW NEWS & POLICY ISSUES
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Levelling Up Committee inquiry
into social housing
On 17 January 2022 the House of
Commons Levelling Up, Housing and
Communities (LUHC) Committee held the
first oral evidence session for its
inquiry into the regulation of social
housing in England. The LUHC Committee
heard from witnesses representing tenant
groups and private registered providers
of social housing. The LUHC Committee’s
inquiry will examine concerns about the
quality of social housing, with a focus
on the ability of the Regulator of
Social Housing and the Housing Ombudsman
to identify and address problems. The
inquiry will also focus on the proposals
in the Government’s social housing White
Paper aimed at improving the regulatory
regime. For more details, click
here. For the inquiry’s
terms of reference, click
here. To watch the
evidence session, click
here.
Appointment of managers under
the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
section 24
On 11 January 2022 the Property
Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal
issued a practice statement on the
Tribunal’s consideration of whom to
appoint as a manager under section 24 of
the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. The
purpose of the statement is to give
leaseholders, prospective managers and
landlords an indication of the
Tribunal’s expectations of a proposed
manager when deciding whether to make an
order under section 24. For the practice
statement, click
here.
Introduction of Renting Homes
(Wales) Act 2016
On 15 January 2022 Welsh
Climate Change Minister Julie James
announced her intention to implement the
Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 on 15
July 2022. Changes brought in by the Act
will include:
- All landlords being required to
provide a written copy of the
occupation contract to the tenant
(called the ‘contract-holder’ in the
legislation).
- 'No-fault' notice periods increasing
from two months to six months. It will
no longer be possible to issue a
notice in the first six months,
meaning all contract-holders will have
a minimum 12 months of security at the
start of their tenancy.
- A strengthened duty on landlords, to
ensure the property they rent is fit
for human habitation including the
installation of smoke and carbon
monoxide alarms, and regular
electrical safety testing.
- Addressing the practice of
'retaliatory eviction' (whereby a
landlord serves notice on a tenant
because they ask for repairs, or
complain about poor conditions).
- The introduction of a consistent
approach across sectors to eviction
where antisocial behaviour and
domestic violence occurs.
The implementation of the Act will
require the introduction of a raft of
subordinate legislation, the most recent
of which is set out below. For the
Minister’s announcement and cabinet
statement, go to wales.gov, click on
‘Housing’ and then ‘Announcements’. For
the Act itself, click
here. For the
government’s response to the
consultation in respect of
implementation of the Act, click
here. For the response
of the National Residential Landlords
Association, click
here.
Renting Homes (Model Written
Statements of Contract) (Wales)
Regulations 2022
These regulations, which come into force
on the day on which section 239 of the
Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 comes
into force, prescribe model written
statements of contracts for secure
contracts, periodic standard contracts
and fixed term standard contracts, as
established by the 2016 Act. For the
Regulations, click
here. For the 2016 Act,
click
here.
Renting Homes (Supported
Standard Contracts) (Supplementary
Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2022
These regulations, which come
into force on the day on which section
239 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act
2016 comes into force, set out the
supplementary provisions which are,
subject to sections 21, 24 and 25 of the
2016 Act, incorporated into supported
standard contracts, as supplementary
terms. For the Regulations, click
here. For the 2016 Act,
click
here.
Renting Homes (Supplementary
Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2022
These regulations, which come into force
on the day on which section 239 of the
Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 comes
into force, set out the supplementary
provisions which are, subject to
sections 21, 24 and 25 of the 2016 Act,
incorporated into occupation contracts
as supplementary terms. For the
Regulations, click
here. For the 2016 Act,
click
here.
Renting Homes (Explanatory
Information for Written Statements of
Occupation Contracts) (Wales)
Regulations 2022
These regulations, which come
into force on the day on which section
239 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act
2016 comes into force, prescribe the
matters which must be contained in the
written statement of the relevant
occupation contract including converted
contracts (see paragraph 1(1) of
Schedule 12 to the 2016 Act for the
definition of “converted contract”), as
established by the 2016 Act. For the
Regulations, click
here. For the 2016 Act,
click
here.
Renting Homes (Fitness for Human
Habitation) (Wales) Regulations 2022
These regulations, which come
into force on the day on which section
239 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act
2016 comes into force, prescribe the
matters and circumstances to which
regard must be had when determining
whether a dwelling is fit for human
habitation, as required by section 91 of
the 2016 Act. This includes certain
matters and circumstances which may
arise because of a landlord’s failure to
keep the dwelling in repair. For the
Regulations, click
here. For the 2016 Act,
click
here.
Fitness of homes for human
habitation: guidance for landlords –
Wales
On 13 January 2022 the Welsh
Government issued guidance explaining
what landlords must do from 15 July 2022
(when the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016
is expected to come into force – see
above) to ensure their property is in
good repair and fit for human
habitation. For the guidance, go to
wales.gov, click on ‘Housing’ and then
‘Publications’.
Housing Advisers Programme
2020-21
On 14 January 2022 the Local
Government Association announced the
successful applicants to the Housing
Advisers Programme 2020-21. The
Programme is designed to support
councils by helping them meet their
local housing need. It aims to be
simple, flexible and locally-led. This
year 16 successful applicants received
money from the programme to promote,
facilitate and enhance their role and
capacity to meet their local housing
need. For details, click
here.
Second homes and tax
On 14 January 2022 the DLUHC
announced that owners of second homes
who abuse a tax loophole by claiming
their often-empty properties are holiday
lets will be forced to pay under new
measures. Following consultation, the
government will now bring changes to the
tax system, which will mean second
homeowners must pay council tax if they
are not genuine holiday lets. From April
2023, second homeowners will have to
prove holiday lets are being rented out
for a minimum of 70 days a year to
access small business rates relief,
where they meet the criteria. For the
announcement, click
here. For the
consultation document and government
response, click
here. For the response
of the Local Government Association, click
here.
The growth in short-term
lettings – England
On 14 January 2022 the House of Commons
Library published a paper examining the
growth in short-term lettings and calls
for greater regulation of the sector in
England. It provides a brief overview of
the regulatory approaches in other
countries. For the paper, click
here.
Domestic abuse victims with no
access to public funds
On 12 January 2022 the Domestic
Abuse Commissioner announced the
appointment of researchers at the London
School of Economics and Political
Science, commissioned to produce a
report on support for victims and
survivors of domestic abuse who have no
recourse to public funds (NRPF) in
summer 2022. The research will be
conducted over six months from January
to June 2022 and will provide an
estimate of the number of victims and
survivors of domestic abuse in the UK
who have NRPF, a condition which
prevents people from accessing housing
benefit and other public funds due to
their immigration status. For more
details, click
here.
Shared owners, mortgages and
subletting
On 12 January 2022 the Housing Minister
wrote to mortgage lenders about steps
the government is taking to make it
easier for shared owners affected by
building safety issues to sublet their
homes. Hitherto subletting has been
restricted in all but ‘exceptional’
circumstances in order to prevent homes
built with public funds from being used
for commercial gain. The government has
now amended its grant funding guidance
to make it clear that issues of building
safety should be treated as an
exceptional circumstance. This will
allow shared owners to sublet their
homes, with the agreement of their
freeholder. For the letter and more
details, click
here.
Ownerships by leaseholders of
the buildings in which they live
On 11 January 2022 the DLUHC announced
proposals to allow more leaseholders in
mixed-use buildings to take control and
ownership of their building. The
government has launched a consultation,
running until 22 February 2022, seeking
views on the proposals. For the
announcement, click
here. For the
consultation, see Housing Law
Consultations (below).
Housing Ombudsman’s Independent
Reviewer of Service Complaints
published
On 13 January 2022 the latest
report of the Housing Ombudsman’s
Independent Reviewer of Service
Complaints was published. The report
considers a sample of complaints against
the HO service closed between 1 April to
30 September 2021. It reflects on how
effectively the service complaints were
handled with a focus on those that are
more challenging to deal with, and
provides recommendations where the
approach could be improved. A summary of
the individual complaints examined is
also included in the report together
with a management response to the
reviewer’s recommendations and an update
on the previous recommendations. For the
report, click
here.
Severe maladministration found
for failures over six year leak:
Housing Ombudsman
On 11 January 2022 the Housing Ombudsman
reported that the London Borough of
Ealing’s complaint handling failures led
to a finding of severe maladministration
after a resident experienced lengthy and
frustrating delays in getting a response
to her complaint. The resident had been
waiting six years for a leaking roof to
be replaced that was causing damp and
impacting on her health.
In its response to the complaint the
landlord focused on the single issue of
the delay to the roof replacement works
referring to procurement issues and then
COVID-19 related issues. It failed to
address the other issues raised by the
resident. The landlord also failed to
escalate the complaint as requested by
the resident and missed her response to
its stage two complaint.This resulted in
a protracted and unsuccessful complaints
process. The Ombudsman found severe
maladministration for the landlord’s
complaint handling and maladministration
for its response to the resident’s
reports about water coming into her flat
and the repairs carried out. The
landlord was ordered to pay the resident
compensation of £3,600 for the
unreasonable delay in completing major
works to the building, for the standard
of temporary works to resolve the issues
and for its complaint handling. For the
case summary, click
here.
Rough sleepers and Covid
vaccination
On 11 January 2022 Local Government
Chronicle reported that at a
webinar with council leaders and chief
executives in December, Housing Minister
Eddie Hughes explained that councils
could use funding from the government’s
£28m ‘protect and vaccinate’ scheme both
to provide accommodation and to
incentivise vaccinations for rough
sleepers. For the report, click
here.
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HOUSING
LAWS IN THE PIPELINE
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Caravan Site Licensing
(Exemptions of Motor Homes) Bill
This Private Members’ Bill, sponsored by
Sir Christopher Chope, would exempt
motor homes from caravan site licensing
requirements. It was presented to
Parliament on 21 June 2021. Second
reading has been further postponed to 14
January 2022.The Bill awaits
publication. To follow progress of the
Bill, click
here.
Homeless People (Current
Accounts) Bill
This Private Members’ Bill, sponsored by
Peter Bone, would require banks to
provide current accounts for homeless
people seeking work. It was presented to
Parliament on 21 June 2021. Second
reading has been further postponed to 21
January 2022. The Bill awaits
publication. To follow progress of the
Bill, click
here.
Caravan Sites Bill
This Private Members’ Bill, sponsored by
Sir Christopher Chope, would amend the
requirements for caravan site licence
applications made under the Caravan
Sites and Control of Development Act
1960. It was presented to Parliament on
21 June 2021 and its second reading was
been further postponed to 21
January 2022.The Bill awaits
publication. To follow progress of the
Bill, click
here.
Asylum Seekers
(Accommodation Eviction Procedures)
Bill
This Private Members’ Bill, sponsored by
Chris Stephens, would make provision for
asylum seekers to challenge the
proportionality of a proposed eviction
from accommodation before an independent
court or tribunal; and establish asylum
seeker accommodation eviction procedures
for public authorities. It was presented
to Parliament on 21 June 2021. The
second reading has been postponed to 14
January 2022.The Bill awaits
publication. To follow progress of the
Bill, click
here.
Leasehold Reform (Ground
Rent) Bill
This Government Bill would make
provision about the rent payable under
long leases of dwellings. The Bill
completed its House of Lords stages on
14 September 2021 and was presented to
the House of Commons on 15 September
2021. The Bill received its second
reading debate on 29 November 2021. The
Public Bill Committee reported the Bill
with amendments to the House on 9
December 2021. The Bill is due to have
its report stage and third reading on 24
January 2022. For the second
reading debate, click
here. For the Bill as
brought from the House of Lords, click
here. For a House of
Commons Library briefing concerning the
Bill, published on 25 November 2021, click
here. To follow
progress of the Bill, click
here.
Building Safety Bill
This Government Bill would make
provision about the safety of people in
or about buildings and the standard of
buildings, to amend the Architects Act
1997, and to amend provision about
complaints made to a housing ombudsman.
The Bill was given its first reading on
5 July 2021 and its second reading on 21
July 2021. The Public Bill Committee
completed its scrutiny on 26 October
2021. The Bill is now due to have its
report stage and third reading on 19
January 2022. For the Bill as
amended in Committee, click
here. For the
Government response to the Housing,
Communities and Local Government
Committee's pre-legislative scrutiny of
the Bill, click
here. For a House of
Commons Library briefing about the Bill,
published on 17 January 2022, click
here. To follow
progress of the Bill, click
here.
Fire and Building Safety
(Public Inquiry) Bill
This Bill, sponsored by Daisy Cooper,
would establish an independent public
inquiry into the Government’s response
to concerns about fire and building
safety. It was introduced to Parliament
on Tuesday 6 July 2021 under the Ten
Minute Rule. Second reading has been
rescheduled to 18 March 2022.
For the Bill, as introduced, click
here.
Evictions (Universal Credit)
Bill
This Private Members’ Bill, sponsored by
Chris Stephens, would place a duty on
the Secretary of State to prevent the
evictions of Universal Credit claimants
in rent arrears. It was presented to
Parliament on 21 June 2021 and will
receive its second reading on 28
January 2022.The Bill awaits
publication. To follow progress of the
Bill, click
here.
Housing Standards (Refugees
and Asylum Seekers) Bill
This Private Members’ Bill, sponsored by
Chris Stephens, would make provision for
national minimum standards in
accommodation offered to refugees and
asylum seekers. It was presented to
Parliament on 21 June 2021 and will
receive its second reading on 21
January 2022.The Bill awaits
publication. To follow progress of the
Bill, click
here.
Under-Occupancy Penalty
(Report) Bill
This Private Members’ Bill, sponsored by
Chris Stephens, would require the
Secretary of State to report to
Parliament on the merits of repealing
those provisions of the Welfare Reform
Act 2012 which provide for persons to be
paid reduced rates of housing benefit or
Universal Credit because their
accommodation is deemed to be
under-occupied. It was presented to
Parliament on 21 June 2021 and will
receive its second reading on 14
January 2022.The Bill awaits
publication. To follow progress of the
Bill, click
here.
Mobile Homes Act 1983
(Amendment) Bill
This Private Members’ Bill, sponsored by
Sir Christopher Chope, would amend the
Mobile Homes Act 1983. It was presented
to Parliament on 21 June 2021 and will
receive its second reading on 28
January 2022. The Bill awaits
publication. To follow progress of the
Bill, click
here.
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FirstPort Property Services
Ltd v Settlers Court RTM Company and
others [2022]
UKSC 1
Background to the appeal
Settlers Court is a block of flats on
the Virginia Quay Estate in East London
(the "Estate"). The flats in Settlers
Court are held under long leaseholds.
The lessees under such long leaseholds
are granted the "right to manage" (the
"RTM") by Part 2, Chapter 1 of the
Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002
(the "2002 Act"). The RTM permits them
to take over management of the block of
which their flats form part from the
existing manager, whether the landlord
or a third party, via a single purpose
company (the "RTM Company"). The RTM
Company formed by the lessees of the
flats in Settlers Court obtained the RTM
in respect of Settlers Court on 8
November 2014. That RTM Company is the
First Respondent to the appeal. The
other Respondents are lessees of flats
in Settlers Court.
The Estate contains other blocks of
flats beyond Settlers Court. These other
blocks share facilities and amenities
with Settlers Court (the "Estate
Facilities"). Prior to the lessees of
Settlers Court exercising the RTM, the
service of managing the Estate
Facilities (the "Estate Services") was
provided by a third party manager, the
Appellant, for the benefit of the entire
Estate. Under the terms of the relevant
leases, the Appellant was entitled to
levy charges from the lessees on the
Estate in respect of providing the
Estate Services (the "Estate Charges").
A dispute arose between the parties over
the extent of the RTM exercised by the
lessees of Settlers Court. The
Respondents claimed that the statutory
RTM extends beyond Settlers Court so as
to include the Estate Facilities. These
were said to form part of the "premises"
over which the RTM is exercisable.
Consequently, the RTM Company, not the
Appellant, was now responsible for
providing the Estate Services to the
lessees of Settlers Court and the
Appellant was no longer entitled to levy
the Estate Charges from them. Instead,
once the RTM had been exercised, the
Estate Charges in respect of Settlers
Court, some 15.2% of the total for the
Estate, became payable to the RTM
Company not the Appellant.
The Appellant disputed this, maintaining
that it remained exclusively responsible
for providing the Estate Services to the
entire Estate because the RTM does not
extend beyond the block over which it is
exercised (and facilities and amenities
solely relating to it). As such, it
claimed to be entitled to continue to
levy the Estate Charges from the lessees
of Settlers Court, noting that it alone
continued to provide the Estate Services
to the entire Estate pursuant to its
obligations under the long leases of
flats in blocks other than Settlers
Court, which remained in force on any
view, and incurred the full costs of
doing so.
The parties were unable to reach
agreement as to how the Estate
Facilities should be managed and the
Estate Charges levied. On 8 December
2017, the Appellant therefore applied to
the First-tier Tribunal (the "F-tT") to
determine whether it was entitled to
levy Estate Charges from the lessees of
the flats in Settlers Court. The F-tT
found against the Appellant, considering
itself bound by the decision of the
Court of Appeal in Gala Unity Ltd v
Ariadne Road RTM Co Ltd [2012]
EWCA Civ 1372. In that case, the Court
of Appeal had decided that the RTM did
extend to facilities on an estate which
were shared between the block of flats
over which the RTM had been exercised
and other dwellings, even though this
would potentially leave both the RTM
Company and the pre-existing manager
responsible to different groups of
lessees for providing the same services
simultaneously. The Upper Tribunal (the
"UT") dismissed the Appellant’s appeal
on the basis that, amongst other things,
it too was bound by Gala Unity.
The UT did however issue a leapfrog
certificate for an appeal directly to
the Supreme Court. This was the first
time that the UT has issued such a
certificate.
Judgment
The Supreme Court unanimously allows the
appeal and, in doing so, holds that Gala
Unity was wrongly decided. Lord
Briggs gives the sole judgment with
which all other members of the Court
agree.
Reasons for the judgment
The RTM grants the RTM Company the right
to perform the relevant management
functions over "the premises" to the
exclusion of any other person such as
the existing manager. Treating it as
applying to shared common facilities
raised insuperable problems [36]. The
lessees of flats in blocks other than
that over which the RTM has been
exercised would be effectively
disenfranchised by having shared Estate
Services provided by an RTM Company with
which they had no formal legal
relationship. This would also be
contrary to the terms of their leases
and was the opposite of what the RTM
under the 2002 Act was supposed to
achieve [37]-[38].
The statutory language in the 2002 Act,
which had to be construed in light of
the context and purpose of the Act,
included numerous signposts pointing
against the Estate Facilities forming
part of the "premises" over which the
RTM was exercisable. As such, the RTM
could not grant the RTM Company the
right or obligation to provide the
Estate Services [39]-[49]. That
construction of the 2002 Act was
confirmed, but no more than that, by the
Consultation Paper which accompanied the
draft bill which later became the 2002
Act. This was admissible [51]-[53]. The
particular facts of Gala Unity
had served to obscure the real
difficulties created by the Court of
Appeal’s decision in that case and the
existence of overlapping rights to
provide the Estate Services between a
manager and an RTM Company [50].
The scope of the RTM contended for by
the Respondents would lead to outcomes,
such as on the facts of the present
case, which were both absurd and
unworkable. The court would therefore
lean against such a construction of the
2002 Act [54]. If the RTM Company was
responsible for the Estate Services, it
would be entitled to recover Estate
Charges only from the lessees of the
building in respect of which it had been
set up. In this case that would mean
only some 15 per cent of the costs of
providing the Estate Services could be
recovered by the RTM Company. This would
likely pose insurmountable solvency
issues for it. Conversely, if the
existing manager retained responsibility
for providing the Estate Services, as it
was bound to do under the terms of the
leases held by the lessees of buildings
other than that over which the RTM had
been exercised, it could not recover the
costs of doing so from the lessees who
had exercised the RTM. In this case,
that meant that, absent some agreement
with the RTM Company, the Appellant, as
manager, could recover only 85 per cent
of the costs of providing the Estate
Services to the Estate as a whole
[56]-[57]. Whilst in some cases the RTM
Company and the manager might reach
agreement, there was no obligation on an
RTM company to do so. It was obviously
preferable to interpret the 2002 Act in
a way which did not lead to an
unworkable situation absent such
agreement [58].
The RTM under the 2002 Act does not
therefore extend to the RTM Company
managing the shared Estate Facilities,
which do not form part of the "premises"
over which the RTM is exercisable. The
Appellant remains the sole party
responsible for providing the Estate
Services to all lessees on the Estate
and entitled to levy Estate Charges
accordingly, including from the lessees
of flats in Settlers Court [62]. Gala
Unity was wrongly decided and
should be overruled [63]. The appeal is
therefore allowed.
Supreme Court Press Summary.
For the full judgment, click
here.
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HOUSING
LAW CONSULTATIONS
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Housing Legal Aid: the way
forward
The Ministry of Justice is
consulting on a proposed new model for
the delivery of housing possession legal
aid. This aims to ensure the
sustainability of the service and to
improve the breadth and quality of
advice available for individuals facing
the loss of their home. The key
proposals in this consultation are:
- remodelling the delivery of the
Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme
(HPCDS) to become a new Housing Loss
Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS),
incorporating both the existing
service of advice and representation
at court but also early legal advice
before court;
- expanding the scope of legal aid so
that HLPAS providers can offer early
legal advice on social welfare law
matters to individuals facing
procession proceedings;
- contracts for individual courts
rather than larger geographical areas;
- allowing providers to claim for the
court duty fee in addition to a Legal
Help fee for follow on work; and
- introducing a set attendance fee for
all schemes, replacing the existing
nil session payment.
The consultation closes on 20
January 2022. For the
consultation document, click
here.
Regulator of Social Housing:
Consultation on the introduction of
tenant satisfaction measures
The Regulator of Social Housing
is seeking views on its proposals for
tenant satisfaction measures which are
part of implementing changes to consumer
regulation set out in the Government’s
‘The Charter for Social Housing
Residents: Social Housing White Paper’.
The measures would provide data about
social housing landlords’ performance
and the quality of their services to
help tenants hold their landlord to
account and help RSH in its future
consumer regulation role. The Regulator
looks forward to hearing from landlords,
tenants and anyone with an interest in
social housing by 3 March 2022.
For the consultation documents, click
here.
Reforming the leasehold and
commonhold systems in England and
Wales
The DLUHC is consulting on a number of
Law Commission recommendations that
would broaden access to enfranchisement
(buying the freehold) and the ‘right to
manage’ a building. The proposals would
increase the ‘non-residential limit’
from 25 to 50 per cent, allowing
leaseholders in buildings with up to 50
per cent non-residential floorspace to
buy their freehold or claim a right to
manage. The DLUHC is also considering
recommendations that allow leaseholders
to require that a landlord take on
leases for any non-participating units
following a collective enfranchisement;
the introduction of a non-residential
limit for individual freehold
acquisitions; and changes to voting
rights in right to manage companies. On
Commonhold, the Department is
considering how shared ownership
products could work in commonhold
settings; and the provision of
information for buying and selling a
commonhold property.
For the consultation, which closes on 22
February 2022, click
here.
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HOUSING
LAW ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
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The 'right to manage' and
shared estate facilities Simon
Allison and Kimberley Ziya Local
Government Lawyer 12 January 2022
– to read the article, click
here
News things Giles
Peaker Nearly Legal 12 January
2022 – to read the article, click
here
Supreme Court overturns Gala Unity Landmark
Chambers 12 January 2022 – to
read the article, click
here
Slow but determined change:
Facing up to non-UK national
homelessness Jennie
Corbett Homeless Link 13
January 2022 – to read the article, click
here
Analysing the Government’s
latest plans to tackle the fire
safety and building safety crisis –
are Michael Gove MP’s proposals fit
for purpose and what are the wider
issues to consider? Michael
Wharfe and James Grinstead Devonshires
13 January 2022 – to read the article, click
here
Shared ownership – reverse
staircasing Jonathan
Jennings Local Government Lawyer
14 January 2022 – to read the article, click
here
Settled by Settlers J
Nearly Legal 16 January 2022 –
to read the article, click
here
‘The present proceedings
should never have been brought.’ ASB
and disability discrimination Giles
Peaker Nearly Legal 16 January
2022 – to read the article, click
here
Women are being failed by
services when facing England's
broken housing system Alex
and Martha Schofield Shelter Blog
17 January 2022 – to read the article, click
here
Housing: recent developments
(December 21/ January 22)
Sam Madge-Wyld and Jan Luba QC Legal
Action – to read the article
(subscription required), click
here
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19th January 2022
Report stage and third reading of
Building Safety Bill (see Housing
Laws in the Pipeline)
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21st January 2022
Postponed second reading of
Caravan Sites Bill (see Housing
Laws in the Pipeline)
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21st January 2022
Postponed second reading
of Homeless People (Current
Accounts) Bill (see Housing
Laws in the Pipeline)
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24th January
2022
Report stage and
third reading of
Leasehold Reform (Ground
Rent) Bill (see Housing
Laws in the Pipeline)
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31st January
2022
Rent Officers
(Housing Benefit and
Universal Credit
Functions) (Amendment
and Modification) Order
2021 comes into force
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22nd February
2022
Closing date for
submissions to the
consultation on
Reforming the leasehold
and commonhold systems
in England and Wales
(see Housing Law
Consultations)
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Featured
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Featured
Job of the Week
Paralegal/Assistant
Caseworker
Salary
£20,000 to £25,000 (according to
experience)
Landlord Action Solicitors are looking for
a Paralegal/Assistant Caseworker to
support our Landlord Action legal team.
Strong communication, organisational, and
attention to detail skills are vital and a
background in property management, housing
or legal experience is desirable. The
successful candidate will be supporting
the Legal Team with the preparation of
bundles, bailiff applications,
communicating directly with clients with
updates on cases, as well as converting
incoming calls into new instructions,
taking payments, and supporting the legal
team with general administrative tasks.
C.V.’s with a covering letter, should be
sent to:
Sonya.redmond@landlordaction.co.uk
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Lime Legal
Limited, Greengate House, 87
Pickwick Road, Corsham,
Wiltshire, SN13 9B
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