Housing Disrepair South Shields – Claims Solicitors

Housing Disrepair South Shields

Housing Disrepair South Shields

If Yes & Your South Shields Housing Association or Council is Ignoring You

Call 0808 169 4398 to receive FREE, no obligation advice

  • Free South Shields 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 FIXED WITHIN 3 MONTHS YOU CAN CLAIM – NO WIN NO FEE
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Housing Disrepair Claims South Shields – 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 compensation 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 a claim to succeed you need to have advised the Council. We can assist in helping you do this free of charge.


Mould or Damp 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 South Shields
Disrepair Claims South Shields

Repair Work Obligations in Housing Association and South Shields Local Authority Houses: Renters or Landlords?

If you live in social Housing, your rights and duties as an occupant likely vary from if you resided in private rented Housing.
One grey area which occupants tend to lack knowledge in is who spends for property repair work and maintenance in social Housing, specifically if the damage is not the renter’s fault.
Do the repair obligations in housing association and regional authority homes fall to the occupant or the proprietor? The response is – it depends.
In some cases it is clear cut that the tenant is accountable for a repair, and sometimes it’s apparent that the property owner should pay up, but what occurs when it isn’t so black and white? Or, what happens if a housing association overlooks their repair obligations and leaves their tenant living in disrepair?
This guide plans to assist you develop if your social Housing proprietor is attempting to shirk their responsibility and what to do about it if they are.
If you reside in social or council Housing and your property owner is declining to make necessary repairs, we can help.
Repairs and Maintenance in Social Housing

What Are my Housing Association Repair Obligations and Requirements?

As an occupant you do have a particular quantity of responsibility to keep where you live tidy, safe and neat, your local authority or housing association also has a lot of repair work and upkeep obligations.
Social Housing proprietors are accountable for most repairs in your house, consisting of any damage or disrepair affecting:.
the structure/exterior of the building i.e. the roofing, walls, windows and external doors.
main heating, gas fires, fireplaces, flues, ventilation and chimneys.
water system, pipelines, sinks, toilets and baths.
external drains pipes and guttering.
gas pipes, electrical circuitry and any devices provided i.e. if a cleaning maker is provided the proprietor is most likely responsible if it breaks.
common locations like lifts and entryways.
If you live in a house of multiple occupation or an HMO, your property manager has much more obligations for fire and general security, supply of water and drain, gas and electrical energy and waste disposal.
These ought to be detailed in your occupancy agreement, which our Housing disrepair solicitors can assist you understand if you seem like you can claim against your property owner or social housing association.
We can send somebody over to inspect the damage to your home if you live in social Housing to help us examine if you can make a claim.
Contact us.

What Is A Housing Association?

No guide to making housing association problems would be complete without a complete description of what a real estate association is. These are non-profit making business, which own numerous residential or commercial properties, and are in business of leasing these homes out.
Where a private property manager may only have one or a handful of residential or commercial properties, a housing association could potentially be leasing hundreds at a time. All of the revenue made from leasing goes towards maintaining and improving the residential or commercial properties, along with extending the property portfolio. Real estate association properties that are rented to low-income groups is frequently given the name social housing. It is the really non-profit making organisation you would make a claim for housing association compensation versus.
We can help you with real estate association payment claims, call us on the number down at the end of this guide to discover how we can help you.

Following Your Housing Association’s Complaints Process

Your Housing association will have its own protests treatment. You should have been offered details of this procedure when you signed your occupancy arrangement. If you don’t have it, call your Housing association and request a copy in composing.
You need to follow this procedure appropriately, just when this treatment stops working to get your Housing disrepair fixed, will there be a path to making a settlement claim.
We can assist you to make accident claims for an injury or illness brought on by Housing disrepair. Call us on the number down near the bottom of this guide to start your claim today.

Taking Your Housing Association to Court for Housing Disrepair

As soon as you have completed your Housing association complaints procedure, you will then have to wait 8 weeks. During this 8-week period, your Housing association ought to solve your complaint for you. If it does not, then you will need to bring a claims case versus them, which will either be settled out of court, or go to court for judgement.
We can help you take your Housing associated to court. Call us at the number at the bottom of this page to discover how we can do this.

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