BTL landlord handed suspended sentence after failing to maintain gas appliances

BTL landlord handed suspended sentence after failing to maintain gas appliances

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A buy-to-let landlord has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property he owns in Plymouth. 

Plymouth Crown Court heard that Thomas Brumby also failed to have the necessary landlord’s gas safety checks undertaken at his rental property in Canterbury Drive, PL5. 

The Safety Executive (HSE) made several attempts to contact the landlord after a concern was raised in August 2018 by a previous tenant that no landlord’s gas safety checks had been carried out for three years. However, Brumby failed to reply. 

Having failed to provide HSE with a copy of any landlord’s gas safety records for his tenanted property, a formal Improvement Notice was served on the landlord requiring him to arrange for the gas appliances at his tenanted property to be checked and maintained. Brumby ignored this Improvement Notice.

 

Brumby of Canterbury Drive, Plymouth, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulations 36(3)(a) and 36(2)(a) of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998. He has been sentenced to 15 weeks in prison for each offence, both suspended for 18 months, and ordered to pay costs of £1,500.

Speaking after the hearing HSE inspector Simon Jones said: “Thomas Brumby put the residents and other members of the public at risk of harm by failing to maintain gas appliances in a domestic property. He showed contempt of the law surrounding gas safety at a tenanted property.

“Landlords must ensure they obtain a landlord’s gas safety record and they maintain all gas appliances in accordance with the law.”

 

 

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