James Barnes
James Barnes
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Registered with Property118.com
5th October 2016
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6th April 2020, 6 years ago
I think it is very unlikely any bedroom under the statutory minimum size is going to be acceptable unless there is other space given to the occupier of that room for their sole use as a compensating factor.
Read More →18th March 2020, 6 years ago
Mick, it looks like you took the opportunity to completely over react so you could post the screenshots here. If anything, I think you've come off looking worse than your tenant.
Read More →9th March 2020, 6 years ago
"When Panos Lassi bought his three-bed flat in Chelsea, he decided it made more financial sense to rent it out to cover the large mortgage and to rent somewhere cheaper for himself to live in." I think this is where...
Read More →5th March 2020, 6 years ago
Anecdotally I've heard that electric central heating systems can be much more expensive to run than systems running on mains gas. The higher the cost to heat the dwelling, the lower the EPC score.
Read More →2nd March 2020, 6 years ago
If the property has an E rated EPC certificate then it is (for the time being) compliant with the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards. The minimum requirement, E, is still low however so it's conceivable that there would be an Excess...
Read More →25th February 2020, 6 years ago
This may be true in some cases but I would guess not the majority. If a property is going to be successful as a short term let it must have some attribute that draws people to it or something else...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Andrew Gough at 06/02/2020 - 10:30
I don't think so, 6.5m2 is desperately small, especially when considering the person occupying that room could have all their worldly possessions stored there. Removing the lower limit would just create a race to the bottom and probably result in...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Julie Ford at 03/02/2020 - 16:44
Reply to the comment left by Julie Ford at 03/02/2020 - 16:44Correct to a degree, if you can still make energy efficiency improvements to the property within a £3,500 price cap then you will be required to do that before...
Read More →29th January 2020, 6 years ago
Minimum room size requirements really only apply to HMOs, with the 6.5m sq being the absolute minimum room size for HMOs falling under the Mandatory Licencing regime. That being said there really isn't much space for anything (bed, wardrobe, night...
Read More →20th January 2020, 6 years ago
I think another important point here is that student loan debt is not the same as credit card, loan, or mortgage debt. Graduate's only make loan repayments once they earn beyond a certain threshold. In that sense student loan debt...
Read More →25th November 2019, 6 years ago
With regard to unannounced visits, under the Housing Act 2004 section 239(7), authorised Council Officer's have the power to enter and inspect premises at any reasonable time to ascertain if any offences under section 72 (operating unlicensed HMOs) or 243(3)...
Read More →30th September 2019, 7 years ago
My guess would be that this proposal would be classed as Temporary or Emergency Accommodation. Not ideal for the reasons you've set out above but certainly better than the prospect of rough sleeping. I think this only becomes problematic if...
Read More →5th September 2019, 7 years ago
In my view, Labour have this the wrong way around. Instead of proposing to expand Right to Buy, they to be proposing to scrap it all together and pledge to start a massive new social housing building scheme instead. Councils...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Yvonne Francis at 04/09/2019 - 10:51
Reply to the comment left by Yvonne Francis at 04/09/2019 - 10:51"In total so far Oxford City Council have shut down 21 sheds used illegally as rental accommodation and served 31 enforcement notices in the last year and a half."...
Read More →3rd September 2019, 7 years ago
To be fair it doesn't actually say Oxford City have spent all of the £274,942, and nor does it say what enforcement action they're taking afterward . Beds in sheds is primarily a planning matter rather than housing, which means...
Read More →6th August 2019, 7 years ago
The Council probably don't have a list of students so I'd give up on that idea. During my time at university it was incredibly easy to download and print a proof of student status for exactly this purpose so I...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Whiteskifreak Surrey at 05/08/2019 - 10:52
Reply to the comment left by Whiteskifreak Surrey at 05/08/2019 - 10:52You're talking about a man who backed Brexit and is now pursuing a no deal withdrawal from the EU, of course he's not on the side of common sense.
Read More →10th July 2019, 7 years ago
Yes, I've seen and heard similar. Dafodil farms in Cornwall struggling to recruit Eastern European labour due to the fall in value of the pound and general unwillingness of locals to do back breaking low paid jobs. I think the...
Read More →28th May 2019, 7 years ago
I am sure that the Green Party and Lib Dems will most certainly not be working with or supporting any policy by the Brexit Party. Not least because beyond Brexit, the Brexit Party probably don't have any policies. Either way...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 15/04/2019 - 15:17
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 15/04/2019 - 15:17I suspect if rents increase too high and too fast as a result of landlord exiting the market, the next step for the government will be to introduce rent...
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