A council has taken a landlord to court over a paperwork dispute - but the fine for the buy to let investor was a token £440.
In June last year an environmental health officer from Coventry council found potential breaches of housing legislation at a property it inspected.
The council served the landlord with a Requisition for Information Notice under Section 16 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976, and a Notice to Produce Documents under s235 of the Housing Act 2004.
The landlord failed to respond tand was found guilty in their absence at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court; the landlord was fined £440.00 and ordered to pay £85.00 in court costs and a £176 victim surcharge.
A council spokesperson says: “This prosecution sends a clear message to landlords that such notices should be taken seriously, and that the Council will not hesitate to prosecute those who choose to ignore their legal obligations.”
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They're very quick in fining a landlord but bad tenants can do as they please with no repercussions... Sad state of affairs
So can we presume that the property itself was ok but it was just paperwork which the landlord failed to produce?
To bureaucrats, paperwork must be the priority, not the condition of the property.
No mention of licensing, was it in place or did the council use some of the hundreds of bits of existing legislation to prosecute?
It’s all bits of paper fo us, it’s all a just press button exercise to them, like my various cavity walls that were done under the Government Schemes, guaranteed for 25 years but I don’t have the Certificate’s because I never got them, they insist on sending them to the Property concerned and of Course Tenants offer don’t pass them to Their landlords and they still have the same stupid Policy. They know where I live but still insist on sending to where they know I’am not.
Jeremy. I honestly don’t know what’s going on, you can’t apply for a license without an EPC, you must give the Tenants a copy. Checking on one of my properties I find 38 EPC’s in this one Road, expired some over 3 years expired mostly let, there’s 5 in one converted house alone. Why am I always so worried about having everything right
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