Subjects:

Housing Law

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction and overview

PART 1 Housing Standards

Chapter 2: Overview of the HA 2004 and the Regulations

Chapter 3: The new Housing, Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS): how it is applied

Chapter 4: Local authority action: procedures, notices and appeals

Chapter 5: How landlords and tenants can challenge local authorities

PART 2: Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs)

Chapter 6: HMOs: the new law, how HMOs are defined and the role of local authorities

Chapter 7: HMOs

local authority procedures, notices and appeals

Chapter 8: Additional licensing of HMOs by local authorities

Chapter 9: How landlords and tenants can challenge local authority HMO decisions

PART 3: Selective licensing of private landlords

Chapter 10: Scope and ambit of these new powers

Chapter 11: Local authority procedures, Government consents

Chapter 12: The position of landlords and tenants

PART 4: Additional Control provisions over private housing

Chapter 13: Interim and final management orders

Chapter 14: Empty Dwelling Orders and Overcrowding orders

Chapter 15: The position of landlords and tenants

PART 5: Home information Packs

Chapter 16: HIPs the new law and practice

PART 6: Other housing provisions

Chapter 17: Anti-social Behaviour measures

Chapter 18: Changes to the Right to Buy

Chapter 19: Mobile Homes

Chapter 20: Tenancy deposit Schemes

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous housing changes

PART 7: The role of the Residential Property Tribunal

Chapter 22: Procedures, appeals and notices: the new role of the RPT service

Chapter 23: Conclusions and an assessment of the Housing Act 2004

APPENDICES: Text of the Act and secondary materials

This practical new title from LexisNexis Butterworths is the first text to provide a full narrative guide to the Housing Act 2004, providing detailed analysis and commentary on the new law and its impact on practice.

Using examples, flow charts and summaries to demonstrate the practical implications of the new law in a digestible format, the book examines all the primary and secondary legislation ensuring practitioners are fully up-to-date with all the latest law and practice.

The Housing Act 2004 is the most radical measure to affect private sector housing and private landlords for decades. This is an essential work for all practitioners who will have to apply the new legislation.