24th March 2021
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HOUSING LAW NEWS & POLICY ISSUES
 

New homes for first time buyers and for social rent – England
On 20 March 2021 the MHCLG announced that from 1 April 2021 councils in England will have more freedom on how they spend the money from homes sold through Right to Buy to help them build the homes needed in their communities, including homes for social rent. The announcement followed a consultation exercise. New measures include:

  • extending the time councils have to spend Right to Buy receipts from three years to five years
  • an increased cap on the percentage cost of new homes councils can fund from Right to Buy receipts raised from 30 to 40 per cent per home, making it easier to build replacement homes 
  • allowing receipts to be used for shared ownership, First Homes, as well as affordable and social housing
  • introducing, from 1 April 2022, a cap on the use of Right to Buy receipts for acquisitions to help drive new supply.
For the announcement, click here. For the Government’s response to the consultation, click here. For the consultation document itself, click here.


Rough sleepers
On 18 March 2021 the MHCLG announced that homes will be made available in every region of England to enable people who sleep rough, or are at risk of sleeping rough, to be rehoused in secure, long-term accommodation. Through this scheme, rough sleepers will be supported by specialist staff to access the help they need, such as support for mental health or substance misuse needs, so they can move towards training and work, and finding a permanent home. For the announcement, click here.


Rough sleepers: Public Accounts Committee report
On 17 March 2021 the Commons Public Accounts Committee published a report – Covid-19: housing people sleeping rough – which found that the success of the "Everyone In" initiative exposed gaps in the MHCLG’s approach to tackling rough sleeping. The Committee says that the MHCLG, local authorities and the voluntary sector made a "considerable achievement" in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, moving quickly and decisively to house people sleeping rough: potentially avoiding some 20,000 transmissions of the virus and limiting deaths among this highly vulnerable population to an estimated 16, against around 37,430 people who had been helped into accommodation by January 2021. The Committee notes, however, that that number is nearly nine times MHCLG'S last official estimate of people sleeping rough on England’s streets, made before the start of the pandemic, of 4,266 - and MHCLG still does not have a plan for achieving or maintaining the government’s 2019 election commitment to end rough sleeping by May 2024. Owing to MHCLG’s sometimes "disappointing evasiveness", it is uncertain whether its objective of providing 3,300 homes for people sleeping rough by the end of March 2021 will be met.

For the report, click here. For a summary, click here. For the report’s conclusions and recommendations, click here. For the Local Government Association’s response to the report, click here. For comment by Crisis, click here.


Rough sleeping – England: Commons Library briefing
On 21 March 2021 the House of Commons Library published a briefing paper providing background information on the causes of rough sleeping and local authorities' duties. The Government has committed to end rough sleeping by May 2024. For the briefing paper, click here. For a briefing paper detailing specific measures in place to assist rough sleepers during the pandemic, click here.


Covid-19 and housing costs
On 22 March 2021 Bright Blue, an independent think tank for liberal conservatism, published a report – Shaky Foundations – which found that that the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating the housing crisis in urban areas, with London boroughs in particular experiencing the biggest rise in England in the proportion of all households claiming state support for housing costs. The main findings include:

  • On average the proportion of all households receiving state support for housing costs has increased by 2.8 percentage points across all English local authorities outside of London in the first nine months of the pandemic; in London the average increase is 5.9 percentage points.
  • There has been, on average, a 3.7 percentage point rise in the proportion of all households claiming state support for housing costs in the average urban English local authority in the first nine months of the pandemic as opposed to a 2.3 percentage point rise in the average rural English local authority.
  • Seventeen of the 20 English local authorities with the highest increases in households claiming state support for housing costs in the first nine months of the pandemic were in London.
  • In four London boroughs (Newham, Haringey, Brent, and Hackney), 40 per cent of households or more are in receipt of state support for housing costs.
  • The growth in claims for state support for housing costs is driven mostly by those renting privately. In February 2020, 53.3 per cent of households on Universal Credit which received the Housing Element were renting socially, while 45.5 per cent were renting privately. By November 2020, the proportion reversed, with 45.1 per cent of households renting socially, while 53.5 per cent were renting privately.
  • In 212 out of 317 English local authorities (66.8 per cent), the proportion of new claimants of state support for housing costs in the first nine months of the pandemic who are privately renting is above 60 per cent.
For the report, click here.


Fire safety
On 17 March 2021 the Home Office published its response to the public consultation on fire safety that ran from July to October 2020. It provides a summary of the responses received and sets out the next steps the Government will take to strengthen fire safety for all regulated buildings which include:

  • legislating through the Building Safety Bill to strengthen the Fire Safety Order in a number of key areas
  • delivering new regulations through Article 24 of the Fire Safety Order in response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 Report recommendations
  • implementing changes to improve engagement between building control bodies and fire and rescue services.
For the response document, click here. For the consultation document, click here. For the draft Building Safety Bill, click here.


Fire and building safety: Social Sector Engagement Best Practice Group report
On 17 March 2021 the Social Sector (Building Safety) Engagement Best Practice Group published its final report which sets out the recommendations about good practice when engaging with residents on fire and building safety issues. For the report, click here. For a summary on the ARCH website, click here.


Supported housing for vulnerable people
On 19 March 2021 the Government announced that four pilots to improve the standard and quality of supported housing in England have been extended for a further six months, backed by an additional £2.3 million. The pilots are in Birmingham, Blackpool, Blackburn and Hull. They will test new approaches to improve standards in supported housing; findings from them will inform future national policy on supported housing. For the announcement, click here.


Judicial Review consultation launched
On 18 March 2021 the Ministry of Justice launched a public consultation on judicial review which will address the recommendations of an independent panel of experts led by Lord Faulks QC. The panel concluded that there was a growing tendency for the courts in judicial review cases to edge away from a strictly supervisory jurisdiction, becoming more willing to review the merits of the decisions themselves, instead of the way in which those decisions were made.

The panel proposed two reforms to substantive law: to reverse the effects of so-called 'Cart judgments' to prevent appeals in the Upper Tribunal being subject to judicial review in the High Court; and to introduce suspended quashing orders as a new remedy. On quashing orders, the panel concluded that the courts should have the ability to suspend quashing orders, mandating a time by which any administrative oversight should be corrected. The consultation will also consider whether to recommend to the Civil Procedure Rule Committee that they consider a range of procedural reforms to improve the efficiency of judicial review claims. For the consultation document, click here. For the panel's report, click here.


Independent Review of the Human Rights Act
On 17 March 2021 the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights questioned witnesses on the impact of the Human Rights Act on the policies and practices of public authorities. Section 6 of the Act obliges public authorities to act compatibly with Convention rights unless primary legislation requires them to do otherwise. Topics included:

  • Examples of where the Human Rights Act has made a difference to public authorities and the delivery of public services;
  • Whether more could be done to raise awareness of human rights within public authorities;
  • How the NHS, the CPS and the police have approached the requirement to act compatibly with Convention rights;
  • Whether there are sectors that have done particularly well at embedding human rights values and whether some public authorities might need more support.
To view the session, click here. For details of the Committee’s inquiry into the Government’s Independent Human Rights Act Review, click here.


Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
These Regulations, which came into force on 19 March 2021, amend the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) Regulations 2014 which make provision for which persons who are subject to immigration control are eligible for an allocation of housing accommodation and for housing assistance. For the Amendment Regulations, click here. For the 2014 Regulations, click here.


Assessment of Accommodation Needs of Gypsies and Travellers (Extension of Review Period) (Wales) (Coronavirus) Order 2021
This Order, which came into force on 18 March 2021, amends the meaning of “review period” (which is the period during which an assessment of accommodation needs must be carried out) in section 101(3) of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014. The first review period under section 101(3)(a) was the period from 25 February 2015 to 24 February 2016. Under section 101(3)(b) all subsequent assessments were to take place during each subsequent period of five years. Due to the impacts of coronavirus on communities in Wales and the effect that it has had on administration within local housing authorities the review period, which otherwise would have come to an end on 24 February 2021, is extended by one year. This Order provides that the review period following the review period under paragraph (a) is increased from five to six years. Thereafter, the review period is five years. For the Order, click here. For the 2014 Act, click here.


Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021
These Rules, which come into force on 6 April 2021, make amendments to the various procedural rules which apply in the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal. In particular, rule 2 deletes a rule from the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008. Rule 4 amends a rule about costs in the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013. For the Amendment Rules, click here. For the 2008 Rules, click here. For the 2013 Rules, click here.


Sale and use of leaseholds in Wales
On 16 March 2021 the Welsh Government published research investigating how leasehold operates in Wales, including distribution and characteristics of leasehold properties and views and experiences of stakeholders. The report makes five main recommendations for action by the Welsh Government:

  • It should consider a mechanism that quantifies and records the distribution of leasehold homes in Wales accurately.
  • It should consider building a network of leaseholders to improve knowledge about leaseholder rights and responsibilities in Wales.
  • It should consider additional law reforms to enhance the rights of leaseholders suggested by this research project.
  • It should consider further research to understand the effectiveness of the current system of dispute resolution.
  • Longer term, it should consider more radical reforms to leasehold, adopting a more holistic and sustainable approach.
For the report, click here.


Covid-19 relief measures – Wales
On 17 March 2021 Julie James, Minister for Housing and Local Government, made a written statement concerning the laying of the Public Health (Protection from Eviction) (No. 2) (Wales) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021, and proposed further extension of Schedule 29 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 (increasing tenancy notice periods to six months). For the statement, go to the Welsh Government website at www.gov.wales and click on ‘Housing’.


Housing Ombudsman
On 16 March 2021 the Housing Ombudsman announced that Adam Sampson has been appointed as its first Independent Reviewer of Service Complaints. He will support the Ombudsman in learning from complaints about its service to continually improve performance. For the announcement, click here.


Youth homelessness – London
On 21 March 2021 the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, announced the establishment of the capital’s first pan-London homeless accommodation hub specifically for the use of young people who are sleeping rough, or at immediate risk of homelessness in the capital. The youth homelessness hub is run as a joint initiative between Depaul UK and New Horizon Youth Centre, in collaboration with the Mayor and London Councils, piloting a new approach to services for young homeless people. It will be run from a 40-bed hotel in west London. The hub will offer “intensive, wrap-around support” from dedicated support workers. For the announcement, click here

 
Regulator of Social Housing
On 16 March 2021 the Regulator of Social Housing set out the information it requires from registered providers in relation to data collection in March 2021 and the deadlines for submission. For the details, click here.

HOUSING LAWS IN THE PIPELINE
 

Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill
This Government bill would amend the electronic communications code set out in Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003; by doing so, it would address one stated policy barrier: making it easier for telecoms companies to access multi-dwelling buildings (such as blocks of flats) where a tenant has requested a new connection, but the landlord has not responded to requests for access rights. Both Houses have agreed on the text of the bill which now waits for the final stage of Royal Assent when the Bill will become an Act of Parliament. Royal Assent is yet to be scheduled. For the bill, as amended by the Lords, click here. To follow progress of the bill, click here. For a briefing, prepared by the House of Commons Library after second reading in the House of Commons, click here.

Mobile Homes Act 1983 (Amendment) Bill
This private members’ bill, sponsored by Sir Christopher Chope, seeks to amend the Mobile Homes Act 1983. It received its first reading in the House of Commons on 10 February 2020. The second reading has been yet further postponed to a date to be announced. For the bill as introduced, click here. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Fire Safety Bill
This Government bill would make provision about the application of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 where a building contains two or more sets of domestic premises; and would confer power to amend that order in future for the purposes of changing the premises to which it applies. The bill completed its final stages in the House of Commons on 7 September 2020. It received its first reading in the House of Lords on 8 September 2020 and its second reading on 1 October 2020. The committee stage was completed on 29 October 2020. The report stage took place on 17 November 2020. The third reading took place on 24 November 2020. The House of Lords returned the Bill to the House of Commons with amendments. The House of Commons considered the Lords Amendments on the floor of the House on 24 February 2021. The House of Lords considered the Commons amendments to the Bill on 17 March 2021. Outstanding issues on the bill were returned to the Commons for consideration. The Commons considered the Lords message on the Bill on Monday 22 March 2021 and have returned the Bill to the Lords as they disagreed with certain Lords amendments. For the bill, as amended on report, click here. To read debates on all stages of the bill, click here. For a briefing paper, published by the House of Commons Library on 19 March 2021, click here. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Bill
This Welsh Government bill seeks to amend the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 to provide greater security for people who rent their homes in Wales. This will particularly affect those who live in the private rented sector and occupy their homes under a ‘standard occupation contract’, the equivalent to the current assured shorthold tenancy, after the 2016 Act comes into force. This additional security will primarily be achieved by extending the minimum notice period for issuing a section 173 notice under the 2016 Act (the equivalent of the current section 21 notice under the Housing Act 1988) from two months to six months. Landlords will also be prevented from issuing such a notice until at least six months from the date of occupancy. Further provisions will also ensure that landlords are unable to issue rolling ‘speculative’ notices on a ‘just in case’ basis. The bill was introduced in the Senedd on 10 February 2020. The Bill was agreed by the Senedd on 23 February 2021. The four-week period during which the Counsel General or the Attorney General may refer to the Supreme Court the question whether the Bill, or any provision of the Bill, would be within the Assembly’s legislative competence for decision elapsed on 23 March 2021. The Bill now awaits Royal Assent. For impact assessments, click here. For the bill as amended at Stage 3, all other documents relating to it, and to follow progress on the  bill, click here.

Housing and Homelessness (Local Accommodation Duty) Bill
This private member’s bill, sponsored by Karen Buck, would place a duty on local authorities to ensure that persons for whom a homeless duty has been accepted are accommodated in the local area, including on discharge into private rented accommodation; and would require local authorities to publish annual reports on steps relating to housing demand and supply taken or intended to be taken to meet that duty. The bill had its first reading on 8 March 2021 and is due to have a second reading on a date to be announced. The bill is being prepared for publication. To follow progress of the bill, click here. 

Supported Accommodation Bill
This private member’s bill, sponsored by Steve McCabe, would require developers to disclose for planning purposes an intention to use a building for supported housing or other accommodation that is specified for the purposes of Universal Credit and Housing Benefit; establish a suitability test for accommodation proposed for such use; and make provision about the fitness of persons to be landlords or managers of supported or other specified accommodation. The bill had its first reading on 18 November 2020 and is due to have its second reading on a date to be announced. The bill is being prepared for publication. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Supported Housing (Regulation) Bill
This private member's bill, sponsored by Kerry McCarthy, would regulate supported housing; make provision about local authority oversight and the enforcement of standards of accommodation and support in supported housing; and prohibit the placing of children in care in unregulated accommodation. It received its first reading on 11 November 2020. The second reading has been further postponed to a date to be announced. The bill is being prepared for publication. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Domestic Properties (Minimum Energy Performance) Bill
This private member’s bill, sponsored by Sir David Amess, would require the Secretary of State to ensure that domestic properties have a minimum energy performance rating of C on an Energy Performance Certificate; to give the Secretary of State powers to require persons to take action in pursuance of that duty. The first reading was on 14 July 2020 and the second reading has been further postponed to a date to be announced. The bill is being prepared for publication. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Sublet Property (Offences) Bill
This private members’ bill, sponsored by Sir Christopher Chope, would make the breach of certain rules relating to sub-letting rented accommodation a criminal offence and would make provision for criminal sanctions in respect of unauthorised sub-letting. The bill is being prepared for publication. It received its first reading on 10 February 2020. The second reading has been yet further postponed to a date to be announced. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Mobile Homes and Park Homes Bill
This private members’ bill, sponsored by Sir Christopher Chope, would require the use of published criteria to determine whether mobile homes and park homes are liable for council tax or non-domestic rates; make provision in relation to the residential status of such homes; and amend the Mobile Home Acts. The bill is being prepared for publication. It received its first reading in the House of Commons on 10 February 2020. The second reading has been yet further postponed to a date to be announced. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Houses in Multiple Occupation Bill
This private member’s bill, sponsored by Ian Levy, would amend the law relating to the licensing of houses in multiple occupation and increase penalties for the contravention of such licences. The bill received its first reading on 9 September 2020. The second reading has been further postponed to a date to be announced. The bill is being prepared for 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. The bill is being prepared for publication. It received its first reading in the House of Commons on 10 February 2020. The second reading has been further postponed to a date to be announced. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Caravan Sites Bill
This private members’ bill, sponsored by Sir Christopher Chope, would amend the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 to remove planning permission requirements for caravan site licence applicants. It received its first reading in the House of Commons on 10 February 2020. The second reading has been further postponed to a date to be announced. For the bill as introduced, click here. 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 would establish asylum seeker accommodation eviction procedures for public authorities. The first reading was on 10 February 2020. The second reading has been postponed to a date to be announced. The bill is being prepared for publication. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Vagrancy (Repeal) Bill
This private members’ bill, sponsored by Layla Moran, would repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824. It received its first reading in the House of Commons on 18 March 2020. The second reading has been further postponed to a date to be announced. For the bill as introduced, click here. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Domestic Premises (Energy Performance) Bill
This private member’s bill, sponsored by Lord Foster of Bath, would require the Secretary of State to ensure that domestic properties have a minimum energy performance rating of C on an Energy Performance Certificate; to make provision regarding performance and insulation of new heating systems in existing properties. The first reading was on 8 January 2020 and the second reading on 7 February 2020. The committee stage will commence on a date to be appointed. For the bill, as introduced, click here. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Rented Homes Bill
This private member’s bill, sponsored by Baroness Grender, would amend the Housing Act 1988 to abolish assured shorthold tenancies; and to extend the grounds upon which landlords of residential housing may recover possession. First reading took place on 22 January 2020. The second reading will be on a date to be announced. For the bill, as introduced, click here. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Evictions (Universal Credit Claimants) Bill
This private members’ bill, sponsored by Chris Stephens, seeks to place a duty on the Secretary of State to prevent the evictions of Universal Credit claimants in rent arrears. The bill is being prepared for publication. It received its first reading in the House of Commons on 10 February 2020. The second reading has been further postponed to a date to be announced. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

Housing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill
This private members’ bill, sponsored by Sir Christopher Chope, seeks to amend Part 3 of the Housing Act 2004 to provide that any selective licensing scheme for residential accommodation extends to social housing. The bill is being prepared for publication. It received its first reading on 10 February 2020. The second reading has been further postponed to a date to be announced. To follow progress of the bill, click here.

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NEW HOUSING CASES
 

R (on the application of Ncube) v Brighton and Hove City Council [2021] EWHC 578 (Admin)

Facts

The Claimant was homeless and a failed asylum-seeker. He sought accommodation from the Defendant in September 2020. The Defendant refused the Claimant’s application as his status meant that he was disqualified from government support at the time. The Claimant claimed that the Defendant had the power to rehouse him and was required to do so. The Defendant submitted that no statutory power existed that authorised them to rehouse him due to his unlawful status. Further, any policy of accommodating homeless persons “irrespective of immigration eligibility” would be unlawful.

On 30th November 2020, the Claimant moved to Home Office accommodation in Swindon after receiving an offer under s.4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. Therefore, at the time of proceedings, the Claimant was no longer based in the Defendant’s locality.

The Defendant submitted that the proceedings were academic as the Claimant had obtained accommodation, there was no wider significance as the case was fact specific and the Claimant’s case was an attempted “rolling claim” in which objection was made to policies which came into existence after the claim was issued for judicial review.

Shortly after the start of lockdown on 26th March 2020, the Minister for Local Government and Homelessness announced the “Everyone In” initiative. The scheme was designed to accommodate rough sleepers urgently to protect public health, in the wake of Covid-19. The Defendant’s housing committee released a report on 18th November 2020 confirming that the scheme did not suspend the legal requirements for rough sleepers with no recourse to public funds (“NRPF”).


Judgment
Freedman J accepted that upon the Claimant obtaining accommodation in Swindon, the claim became speculative. However, he found that the question of whether it was correct that rough sleepers who are NRPF persons are barred from obtaining accommodation, was not fact sensitive and had a wider public importance. On this basis, the conditions for hearing an academic claim were met.

The Defendant maintained that following s.185 of the Housing Act 1996, the Claimant was not eligible for homelessness assistance under Part VII Housing Act 1996. Therefore, providing him with assistance would be an impermissible attempt to circumvent the statutory limitations.

The Claimant submitted that the Defendant had the power under s.138 of the Local Government Act 1972 during emergencies or disasters. The Defendant argued that as Brighton was in Tier 1 with low infection rates, there was not an emergency or disaster. Freedman J found that the tier formed part of the risk from the pandemic, which was the purpose behind the “Everyone In” scheme.

The Claimant made a further submission that the Defendant had an alternative power under s.2B of the NHS Act 2006, which contains a duty for authorities to take appropriate steps to improve public health. Freedman J found that despite the Defendant’s submission that accommodation was not expressly listed, provided the provision is used to promote public health and not to circumvent the Housing Act 1996 restrictions, it may be used as such.

Within his skeleton argument, the Claimant submitted that an alternate power existed under s.180 Housing Act 1996. This power enables an authority to provide assistance to voluntary organisations “concerned with homelessness, or matters related to homelessness”. The Defendant maintained that s.180 does not give rise to any specifically enforceable duty or power to assist an individual who is homeless. Freedman J agreed that the wording was limited to assisting a third party.

The Claimant’s final submission referred to s.1 –  s.2 of the Localism Act 2011, which contain a general power for an authority to do anything that individuals may do. The power is limited by legislation in force prior to the Act, or legislation which restricts the general power. The Claimant submitted that words should be inserted in the Act to provide for Convention compliance when an applicant faces a breach of his or her human rights. After an extensive discussion, Freedman J concluded s.1 did not give rise to a free standing power for the Defendant to accommodate the Claimant. Further, it was not necessary to insert wording into the Act as the Claimant had recourse to s.4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

To conclude his judgment, Freedman J ordered that the Defendant had the power to provide the Claimant with assistance to obtain housing under both s.138 Local Government Act 1972 and s.2B NHS Act 2006. This power exists with the limitation that it must not be used to circumvent the restrictions contained within s.185 Housing Act 1996, or Schedule 3 to the Nationality and Immigration Act 2002.

Summary by Abigail Cheetham, pupil barrister, Trinity Chambers. For the judgment, click here.

HOUSING LAW CONSULTATIONS
 

Safer buildings in Wales
The Welsh Government is consulting on proposals for comprehensive reform of legislation that contributes to building safety in Wales. It focuses on legislative change across the lifecycle of buildings as well as setting out aspirations for culture change in the way buildings are designed, constructed and managed. The consultation ends on 12 April 2021. For the consultation documents, click here.

HOUSING LAW ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
 

High Court rules DWP’s universal credit deductions policy unlawful Sophie Earnshaw Shelter Blog 17 March 2021 – to read the article, click here


Quarterly Housing Update – Winter 2020/21 Trowers and Hamlins 18 March 2021 – to read the publication, click here


Late s.202 reviews and what gets appealed Giles Peaker Nearly Legal 21 March 2021 – to read the article, click here


Arrears, conduct and Tribunal discretion on RRO awards Giles Peaker Nearly Legal 21 March 2021 – to read the article, click here


Webinar: Private residential development briefing - The future of residential in cities – A re-assessment? Sara Bailey Trowers and Hamlins 22 March 2021 – to view the webinar, click here


Housing: recent developments (March 21) Sam Madge-Wyld and Jan Luba QC Legal Action February 2021 – to read the article (subscription required), click here

HOUSING LAW DIARY
 

26 March 2021                                       
Call for evidence in respect of Violence Against Women and Girls closes

31 March 2021                                       
Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies: Protection from Eviction) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 come into force

1 April 2021                                     
Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 come into force

1 April 2021                                     
Housing (Shared Ownership Leases) (Exclusion from Leasehold Reform Act 1967 and Rent Act 1977) (England) Regulations 2021 come into force

6 April 2021      
Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021 come into force (see Housing Law News and Policy Issues)

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