Download or read book A Practical Guide to the Homes Fitness for Human Habitation Act 2018 written by Brooke Lyne and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets out the legislative terrain prior to the Act, how the Act came to be passed, and looks at: what the Act does and how it is likely to be interpreted; remedies for tenants living in properties that are unfit for habitation; how damages are likely to be quantified; and what steps landlords should take to ensure they comply with the provisions.
Download or read book Home Information Packs written by P. H. Kenny and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets out Part 5 of the Housing Act 2004, interspersing it with annotation, which explains and analyses the legislation and its objectives. Supported by diagrams, this guide discusses the contents of the Home Information Packs, outlining a typical pack, what's required, and what documents are needed to support the requirements.
Download or read book The Housing Act 1980 written by Trevor M. Aldridge and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Housing Act 2004 written by Helen Carr and published by Jordans Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Housing Act 2004 makes significant changes to the regulation of residential property in both the private and public sector, together with changes that will fundamentally alter the conveyancing process. This guide to this vast Act should be useful to those involved in the management of housing and disputes about housing standards.
Download or read book The Housing Act 1980 A Practical Guide written by Trevor M. Aldridge and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Sector Housing and Health written by Paul Oatt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England’s private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies. From the environmental health practitioner perspective, the targeted health problem is occupiers privately renting from negligent or criminal landlords who are subsequently exposed to hazardous conditions arising from disrepair. Paul Oatt’s analysis looks at the powers local authorities have to address retaliatory eviction when enforcing against housing disrepair and digs deeper into their duties to prevent homelessness and powers to protect tenants from illegal eviction. He then explores the potential for tenants to take private action against landlords over failures to address disrepair, before finally discussing proposals put forward by the government to abolish retaliatory evictions and improve security of tenure with changes to contractual arrangements between landlords and tenants, based on successive stakeholder consultations. The policy analysis looks at these aspects to define the overall effectiveness of housing strategies and their implementation, examining causality, plausibility and intervention logic as well as the unintended effects on the population. Equitability is examined to see where policy effects create inequalities as well as the costs, feasibility and acceptability of policies from landlords' and tenants’ perspectives. The book will be of relevance to professionals interested in housing and health, as well as students at universities that teach courses in environmental health, public health, and housing studies.
Download or read book Homes Fitness for Human Habitation Act 2018 written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Assent, 20th December 2018. An Act to amend the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 to require that residential rented accommodation is provided and maintained in a state of fitness for human habitation. Explanatory Notes have been produced to assist in the understanding of this Act and are available separately. Territorial extent: E/W
Download or read book Fire Safety Law written by V. Charles Ward and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights. V. Charles Ward addresses in practical legal terms the responsibilities on building-owners to ensure that buildings are fire-safe for people who are living, working, or visiting those buildings and explains what protections are available to leaseholders faced with the costs of making their buildings fire-safe. The book begins with a summary of the lessons which have come from the Grenfell Inquiry, before providing a practical overview of current fire-safety legislation relating to residential and commercial buildings. This legislative overview will include not only the 2005 Fire Safety Order, as updated by the 2021 Fire Safety Act and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, but will also include associated and emerging legislation and official guidance in relation to fire safety, including gas and electrical safety regulation, as well as the Building Safety Act 2022. The book will then pull apart a typical long-residential lease within a high-rise block to identify who is directly responsible for fire safety and explain how the costs of making good the fire-risk from defective cladding might be shared out between the ground-landlord and individual residential leaseholders. Having assessed the legal situation as regards existing high-rise leaseholders, the book then addresses the additional ‘due diligence’ required by prospective purchasers of individual high-rise flats, as well as estate agents, mortgage lenders, landlords and conveyancing lawyers, to ensure that what they will be buying or lending money on is ‘fire-safe’ and that any associated costs are fully accounted for.
Download or read book Housing Law Handbook written by Stephen Cottle and published by Law Society Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing law issues can be wide-ranging and involve dealing with several areas of the law. The Housing Law Handbook provides a practical and concise outline of the law and procedure relating to housing problems. The handbook aims to be a first port of call for lawyers and advisors dealing with housing as well as professionals in social housing sector, providing information in a concise and manageable form to support busy litigators and caseworkers.
Download or read book Housing Conditions written by Jan Luba and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FIRST TIME LANDLORD HOUSE RENTAL PREP BOOK written by J. M. Sarsfield and published by Strike Publishing . This book was released on 2022-08-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have doubts about what you need to AND should do, to prepare your first U.K. rental property investment? Discover the new legal requirements for landlords - you will need to know - to prevent you from being fined up to £30,000. Understand why compiling a Household Management Document will provide you with a valuable management tool, whereas, just having a tenancy agreement, falls massively short. In this book you will discover: ◆ Legal must-dos to make sure your rental property is compliant or face big fines ◆ Critical areas to get right before you check in your first tenant to cut your ongoing rental property maintenance costs ◆ Why adding unnecessary extras can actually lower your ROI ◆ Boundary confrontations - avoid by planning ahead ◆ Plumbing and Heating issues cost landlords so much more than they need to ◆ 29 criteria the local authority will use to judge you as a landlord and decide if your rental property is fit for human habitation Even if you think you have it all nailed….I'll bet you haven’t! Read this property rental book focusing on maintenance and in three hours you will be able to draw up a schedule to prepare and maintain your rental property….you can then relax and feel in control and start landlording on autopilot! Discover all this valuable guidance for less than the cost of a large pizza…. AND get a FREE Bonus Book on Tackling Damp In Your Rental! Get it Now!
Download or read book Conveyancing Handbook written by Frances Silverman and published by The Law Society. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 1643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conveyancing Handbook is revised annually by a team of expert editors and contributors, directed by an editorial board and edited by Frances Silverman.It presents up-to-date guidance on good practice in residential conveyancing and is a reliable source of reference to answer the common queries arising from day-to-day transactions.Among the changes to the law and practice of residential conveyancing covered by this 23rd edition are: higher rates of SDLT on purchases of additional residential properties implementation of the Flood Re scheme Law Society's CON 29 enquiries of local authority 2016 risks arising from cyber crime.These developments and more are considered within a chronological account of conveyancing transactions of residential freehold and leasehold property, supported byan introductory section addressing a wide range of preliminary concerns from advertising to VAT, procedural checklists for each major stage of the transaction and comprehensive appendix material, including all relevant forms and guidance.
Download or read book Repairs written by Jan Luba and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this handbook sets out the law and practice on the enforcement of landlords' obligations for housing disrepair. Dealing with situations that advisers are most likely to encounter, the text has been updated and revised to cover legislative and case law developments, including the new rules on civil procedure as they relate to disrepair cases.
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Responding to Housing Disrepair and Unfitness Claims written by Iain Wightwick and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disrepair (or more properly "housing conditions") claims are on the rise. This book should be helpful to those receiving and responding to them. Such claims increased by 44% between 2012 and 2017 in England and Wales and they have continued to proliferate. In those five years Southwark LBC paid out about £10,000,000 in damages and costs. Sheffield City Council has disclosed that it has spent more than £1 million fighting disrepair claims within the last 2 1/2 years. There has been a 322% increase in cases, which they blame on claims management companies using "aggressive marketing tactics" to attract tenants who are unhappy about the state of their homes during the pandemic. That has been greatly exacerbated by the inability on the part of all landlords to do repairs other than urgent works. Housing conditions claims are not just wasteful in terms of officer time and finances. They can be very stressful for those involved, particularly where landlords face large numbers of claims and their staff are already busy planning and carrying out repairs, maintenance and improvements. I anticipate that all landlords would prefer to direct their resources to repairs rather than legal fees. The book is more about the strategies needed to deal with disrepair litigation rather than the substantive law. If you are a tenant's representative, I hope that the book will help you to weed out good claims from the many which are at present gratuitously and unnecessarily issued. Fortunately, the Court of Appeal has just handed down a very helpful decision on an application for permission to appeal. In Hockett v Bristol City Council (2021) unreported, Ref: B2/2021/1025, Lord Justice Bean agreed with the approach which I conceived a number of years ago, and which has been approved of by many judges in the County Court. I hope that the application of that philosophy to disrepair claims will dramatically reduce the legal bills currently being paid by social landlords. Many of the complaints which tenants are making about housing conditions should never have involved lawyers. You'll need to buy the book to find out more about it though! The book also addresses how to respond to a disrepair claim in the event that ADR is not appropriate or fails to appease the tenant.
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Antisocial Behaviour Injunctions written by Iain Wightwick and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide provides legal practitioners, social landlords, the police, tenants and their advisors with a practical guide to the current law governing the control of anti-social behaviour in England and Wales using Injunctions made under the 2014 Act ("ASBIs").
Download or read book WHO Housing and Health Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines' implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.
Download or read book Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences written by Mark Petticrew and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have all pointed out that we need to be able to tell the difference between real and assumed knowledge. The systematic review is a scientific tool that can help with this difficult task. It can help, for example, with appraising, summarising, and communicating the results and implications of otherwise unmanageable quantities of data. This book, written by two highly-respected social scientists, provides an overview of systematic literature review methods: Outlining the rationale and methods of systematic reviews; Giving worked examples from social science and other fields; Applying the practice to all social science disciplines; It requires no previous knowledge, but takes the reader through the process stage by stage; Drawing on examples from such diverse fields as psychology, criminology, education, transport, social welfare, public health, and housing and urban policy, among others. Including detailed sections on assessing the quality of both quantitative, and qualitative research; searching for evidence in the social sciences; meta-analytic and other methods of evidence synthesis; publication bias; heterogeneity; and approaches to dissemination.
