Elsewhere
Useful links
Other organisations, and the primary sources we use most. We have no connection with any of them and nothing here is an endorsement of advice given elsewhere.
Advice and support for renters
- Advice4Renters Legal assistance for tenants.
- Camden Federation of Private Tenants
- Generation Rent Campaigning for private tenants, with strong research and public awareness work.
- Renters’ Rights London A good database on renting in the London boroughs, run by the Camden Federation of Private Tenants.
- Shelter The UK housing charity. Good for information and advice.
- Tenant-Law An informative guide to your rights as a tenant, with useful resources.
- Advice for veterans Housing and other issues, by Lily Jones.
Licensing and enforcement
- London Property Licensing Borough-by-borough detail on additional and selective licensing schemes. The best single source for London, though always confirm dates with the council itself.
- HMO licences on GOV.UK When a licence is needed and what it involves.
- Haringey freedom of information response on HMOs Data on HMO prosecutions, 2005 to 2016.
The law itself
- Housing Act 2004 The licensing offences at sections 72 and 95.
- Housing and Planning Act 2016 Rent repayment orders are at sections 40 to 52. The offence table is at section 40(3).
- Rent repayment orders: guidance for tenants The government’s own guidance, which recommends Flat Justice.
- First-tier Tribunal decisions Published RRO decisions. Searchable, and worth reading before your own hearing.
- Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) decisions Where the binding authority on quantum comes from.