An agent has been hit with a bill of nearly £7,500 after admitting operating an unlicensed House in Multiple Occupation.
Tony Alan Estates, of Camden, London, were fined £3,500, ordered to pay costs of £3,838 and a victim surcharge of £120.
The case was one of five heard at Highbury Magistrates Court after Islington Council extended its licensing requirements in part of the borough last September.
The new regime now includes all rental properties occupied by three or more people in more than one household, and certain converted properties.
The five prosecutions, which included four of landlords, led to fines totally £13,900 and the payment of council costs of over £10,000.
The largest fine was £4,000 and involved the sub-letting of a property without the owner’s consent.
Here’s an interesting note on the subject of council additional licencing schemes …. before 2010 local governments were apparently told by central office “confidentially” that they could not make up additional licensing unless the property fell within the definition of HMO in the first place and not to make up HMO’s as it pleased. Seems local councils have gone ahead?
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