Housing Disrepair Sevenoaks – Claims Solicitors

Housing Disrepair Sevenoaks

Housing Disrepair Sevenoaks

If Yes & Your Sevenoaks Housing Association or Council is Ignoring You

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  • Free Sevenoaks Legal Advice
  • Free Home Survey To Assess Damage
  • Free Repairs To Your Property
  • No Win No Fee Claim

IF YOU HAVE REPORTED ANY OF THESE ISSUES AND THEY WERE NOT DEALT WITH WITHIN 3 MONTHS YOU CAN MAKE A CLAIM – NO WIN NO FEE
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Housing Disrepair Claims Sevenoaks – What can I declare for?

We examine claims on a case to case basis. Areas you can declare for are:

  • Payment for residing in a property with disrepair
  • Personal effects that has actually been damaged due to disrepair
  • Injury to your health caused by the disrepair.

Just how much could I receive?

Our primary objective is to get your home fixed to your lawyer’s standard not to the property manager’s requirement. Everybody has a legal right to live in a well-maintained property.

A property manager will offer compensation depending upon the seriousness of the disrepair and the length of time, compensation differs on a case to case basis. You can also declare for any personal products you have actually needed to change due to the disrepair.

For your claim to succeed you need to have advised the Council. We can assist in helping you do this with no cost.


Damp or mould Problems


Rodent and pest infestation.


Roofing, Windows, Gutters or Drains.


Structural defects to your property


Electrics or Boilers.


Flooding and water leakages.

Housing Disrepair Claims Sevenoaks
Disrepair Claims Sevenoaks

What is a Housing Association Repairs and Maintenance Policy on Health and Safety Standards?

There are particular health and wellness requirements which apply to leased homes. By law, your home needs to be safe and fit to reside in when your tenancy begins and this need to continue throughout the occupancy.
From the beginning to the end of your tenancy, your housing association has commitments to repair and preserve safety of:.
The gas supply and gas home appliances they supply.
Electrical circuitry and electrical devices they supply.
Condensation, moist and mould are likewise typical issues that you might encounter. You must report problems with this to your landlord instantly.
Every proprietor, whether they are a local authority or a housing association, has obligations to repair moist and mould, along with to recognize the reason for the issue.
After you’ve reported the problem, an inspection and repairs they are accountable for should be carried out. If the condensation has happened due to a failing to supply adequate ventilation on their part, it’s their job to deal with the ventilation problem.
Damp and mould can position a major threat to health, causing respiratory problems like asthma and bronchitis, especially in kids. This is why it is essential that you report it to your property manager, which they sort it out as rapidly as possible.
Everybody deserves a safe home. Are features of your house unsafe, and has your social Housing proprietor stopped working to make the required repair work? To find out more about your housing association duties to tenants, get in touch.

What Are my Housing Association Repair Obligations and Requirements?

As a tenant you do have a particular quantity of responsibility to keep where you live tidy, safe and tidy, your local authority or housing association likewise has a lot of repair and maintenance responsibilities.
Social Housing landlords are accountable for the majority of repairs in your home, consisting of any damage or disrepair impacting:.
the structure/exterior of the structure i.e. the roof, walls, windows and external doors.
central heating, gas fires, fireplaces, flues, ventilation and chimneys.
water system, pipelines, sinks, toilets and baths.
external drains pipes and guttering.
gas pipelines, electrical wiring and any appliances provided i.e. if a washing maker is offered the property owner is most likely accountable if it breaks.
common areas like lifts and entrances.
If you reside in a house of numerous occupation or an HMO, your property manager has much more duties for fire and general safety, water system and drain, gas and electrical power and waste disposal.
These should be detailed in your tenancy arrangement, which our Housing disrepair lawyers can assist you comprehend if you seem like you have the right to claim versus your proprietor or social housing association.
We can send out someone over to inspect the damage to your house if you live in social Housing to help us examine if you can make a claim.
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What Is A Housing Association?

No guide to making real estate association problems would be complete without a full description of what a real estate association is. These are non-profit making enterprises, which own numerous homes, and remain in the business of leasing these residential or commercial properties out.
Where a private property owner may just have one or a handful of residential or commercial properties, a housing association might possibly be renting hundreds at a time. All of the profit made from renting goes towards maintaining and improving the homes, along with extending the property portfolio. Housing association properties that are leased to low-income groups is frequently given the name social real estate. It is the in fact non-profit making organisation you would make a claim for real estate association settlement versus.
We can help you with real estate association settlement claims, call us on the number down at the end of this guide to learn how we can assist you.

What Is Housing Disrepair in A Sevenoaks Housing Association Home?

Numerous homes in the UK experience moist, among the most typical reasons that people look for housing disrepair payment. Naturally, wet is a precursor to mould, and mould is also a very common factor for individuals to seek payment from the property manager for mould. Your real estate association compensation policy must cover what the association’s duties are with regard to declaring for needed repair work such as wet and mould.
Moist and mould are together, the most common factors for individuals to make a problem to their real estate association, there are lots of more reasons such as:
No hot water
Broken heating
Malfunctioning electrics
No gas supply
Dripping pipelines or roofing system
Damaged windows or doors
There really are many reasons that you might need to claim for real estate disrepair versus your real estate association. Call us here at We and tell us what your problem is, and we will let you know whether you have a legitimate claim or not. You can use the number at the end of this guide to call us.

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