This course
considers those provisions of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 which
have been brought into effect, are the subject of further guidance in the
months prior to this Housing and Planning Act 2016 Summary webinar, or which will be coming into effect soon.
During this session,
experienced property practitioner and lecturer Richard Quenby will discuss the
following:
1. Banning orders; an order,
made by the First-tier Tribunal, banning a person from, letting housing in
England, engaging in English letting agency work, engaging in English property
management work, or doing two or more of those things.
2. The
retention of financial penalties for
banning order offences whereby a ‘responsible local housing
authority’ may impose a financial penalty on a person if satisfied, beyond reasonable
doubt, that the person’s conduct amounts to an offence under section 21(1) of
the Housing and Planning Act 2016.
3.
The introduction of a database of rogue
landlords and property agents by the Secretary of State and the maintenance of
this database under sections 29 and 30 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016
4.
Client
money protection schemes; where money is handled by an agent under a client
money protection scheme, tenants and landlords will compensation
if all or part of their money is not repaid.
5.
Recovery
of litigation costs as an administration charge; Section 131 of the Housing and Planning Act (HPA) 2016 deals
with reasonableness of administration charges and gives courts and tribunals
the ability to restrict a landlord's recovery of its costs of legal proceedings
from residential tenants as an administration charge.