Publication Category: Housing Management Brief

Welcome to the new edition of our Housing Management & Property Litigation brief tailored to Welsh Registered Social Landlords!

The Scheme was introduced by the Welsh Government to help those facing significant financial hardship as a direct result of fire safety issues affecting their property.

How has the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 changed succession rules in Wales?

Welcome to the brand new edition of our Housing Management brief!

Richard Blakeway responds to some questions on the Housing Ombudsman’s latest Spotlight report and gives an insight into other key areas currently being examined.

I have recently joined the team at Devonshires, based in our fast-growing Leeds office.

The Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013 (“the Act”) introduced an ability to obtain an Unlawful Profit Order (“UPO”), which is an order requiring a tenant to pay their landlord any profit they have made from subletting their home.

In the last 6 months we have seen a lot of activity both from the Government, Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) on the subject of social and affordable rent increases, and the National Housing Federation (NHF) on shared ownership rent increases.

Anna Bennett was recently instructed on the case of Issac Smith v Network Homes Limited which was one of the three conjoined appeals heard by the Court of Appeal in November 2022 with judgment being handed down on 16 December 2022.

There has been a spike in recent months of statutory nuisance notices being served on landlords pursuant to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (“the EPA 1990”).