Oliver Tandy
Oliver Tandy
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3rd September 2026
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Registered with Property118.com
3rd September 2026
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31st October 2026, 20 hours ago
Hi Karen, There is a difference of two words in the regulations that settles most of this. Under the 2006 HMO Management Regulations, regulation 5(2) says you must not unreasonably cause or permit an interruption to water or drainage. Regulation...
Read More →31st October 2026, 24 hours ago
Hi Sarah, Your engineer had the direction right and the mechanism wrong, and the difference decides how worried you need to be. Permitted gas pressure hasn't changed. What changed on 1 October is the tightness test itself. IGEM/UP/1B went to...
Read More →31st October 2026, 1 day ago
Hi Amanda, It's worth separating two questions here, because they don't have the same answer. Whether the agent can impose this at all, and whether anyone could ever act on it. On the first, start with your lease rather than...
Read More →31st October 2026, 1 day ago
Hi SP, Before anything else in that lease, work out which register the provider's actually on. CQC regulates the care, not the housing, and they're two separate registers. The exemption people reach for is Schedule 14 of the Housing Act...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 07/10/2026 - 11:25
Reply to the comment left by Will H at 07/10/2026 - 11:25Hi Will, The duplication's real, and it isn't going anywhere. Nothing in the Act scraps selective or additional licensing, and Propertymark's paper is a request rather than a change,...
Read More →Reply to comment left by northernpleb at 16/10/2026 - 10:30
Hi Northernpleb, Yours is the one question in this thread nobody has actually answered, so here's the honest version. You have no police powers and you can't restrain anyone. What you do have is procedural, and it's worth more than...
Read More →17th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi there, The asymmetry you're describing is real, and it has a specific legal cause that's worth knowing, because it changes how you protect yourself. Almost everything a council can do to a small landlord now arrives as a civil...
Read More →16th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi M, Your last question is the one nobody here has answered, and it isn't really a data protection one. What stops the Scottish address working is section 48 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. You have to give...
Read More →16th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi there, The timing question you're most worried about has a cleaner answer than you'd expect, and it runs the opposite way to waiting. Ground 1A requires that the current tenancy began at least a year before the relevant date....
Read More →16th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi Andy, Since you and student landlord are both in York, that licence condition above is probably sitting on your houses too, and Ian's instinct to challenge it is right. You just don't have to wait for renewal to do...
Read More →16th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi Paul, One wrinkle worth checking before you do this across the whole portfolio. Returning a deposit mid-tenancy tidies things up going forward, but it doesn't retrospectively fix a tenancy where protection or the prescribed information went in late. The...
Read More →16th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi Phil, The honest answer is the counter claim doesn't exist, and the reason's structural rather than unfair. The Home Office owes you no duty of care for how it polices the border, and a penalty you've been told to...
Read More →15th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi Ellen, You're not missing anything obvious. The gap you've spotted is real, and it sits on the tenant's side of the agreement rather than yours. Worth being clear on one thing first: signing a new agreement now for next...
Read More →15th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi Jim, Your conundrum rests on two Parts of the Act doing different jobs, and once they're separated it looks less hopeless. Going back on the housing list is Part 6. Intentional homelessness is Part 7, and it doesn't bear...
Read More →14th October 2026, 3 weeks ago
Hi all, Worth separating the three cases, because "paused" is doing a lot of work in the headlines. Brighton & Hove have only postponed a decision, so nothing's changed yet for anyone letting there. Telford & Wrekin is different: that...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 10/10/2026 - 14:50
Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 10/10/2026 - 14:50Hi Judith, Worth separating the two mechanisms, because the £7k and Awaab's Law aren't the same thing and the difference matters here. Awaab's Law is an implied term in...
Read More →2nd October 2026, 1 month ago
Gary, after someone found your home 150 miles away and went at your brakes, the worry is entirely rational. But it's worth separating what the regulations require from what this thread assumes. Registering and publishing aren't the same thing. Individual...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jo at 29/09/2026 - 10:02
Reply to the comment left by Jo Westlake at 29/09/2026 - 10:02Hi Jo, The list you're after exists in one place, and from tomorrow it's the only one that counts. If you verify digitally you've got to use a provider...
Read More →27th September 2026, 1 month ago
Reading through this, the inconsistency people are describing here (wards excluded with no explanation, inspectors making things up on the spot, licences granted with no inspection at all) matches something we found going through all 296 English licensing authorities individually:...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Heather G. at 03/09/2026 - 19:47
Reply to the comment left by Heather G. at 03/09/2026 - 19:47Technically yes - once the scheme goes live at midnight on the 25th there's no grace period baked into the Housing Act itself, so an unlicensed letting is in...
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