Landlords address?

poppysarah

Can it be the business registered office or does it need to be a home address?

blckbrd

It can be any address in England/Wales where the LL can be served notice/contacted.

adg1

It doesn't have to be a home address at all. It can be as little as a PO Box or an office address. You simply need to be able to contact the landlord, in writing, at that particular address.

tbs624

blckbrd wrote: »

It can be any address in England/Wales where the LL can be served notice/contacted.

adg1 wrote: »

It doesn't have to be a home address at all. It can be as little as a PO Box or an office address. You simply need to be able to contact the landlord, in writing, at that particular address.

You are confusing two separate requirements:

Under S48 Of LL& T Act 1987 an address at which Notices relating to the Tenancy may be served on the LL has to be provided. This can be at his agents, at a PO box, but it must be in E or Wales ( no such address then rent not lawfully collectable)

This is additional to the requirements of S1 of the LL & T Act 1985 under which, if requested in writing by a T, the name and address of the LL this must be given within 21days (criminal offence if not supplied) This has to be the LL’s place of abode or business address/registered company address, but it cannot be a PO box address , a c/o address nor the LA's address unless the LL is also the LA.

poppysarah

So a ltd company registered office is ok even if the guy lives in a mansion in France ...

theartfullodger

So a ltd company registered office is ok

yes, but only for...

S48 Of LL& T Act 1987

(Section 48 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1987...
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1987/cukpga_19870031_en_10#pt6-l1g69
)

But for

S2 of the LL & T Act 1985

(Note: Section 2 for "Bodies Corporate" not Section 1..

The addresses of all the directors are required so...


His address at the mansion in la Belle France is required....
see..
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1985/cukpga_19850070_en_1#pb1-l1g2

2 Disclosure of directors, &c. of corporate landlord

(1)Where a tenant is supplied under section 1 with the name and address of his landlord and the landlord is a body corporate, he may make a further written request to the landlord for the name and address of every director and of the secretary of the landlord.
(2)The landlord shall supply the tenant with a written statement of the information requested within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which he receives the request.
(3)A request under this section is duly made to the landlord if it is made to—
(a)an agent of the landlord, or
(b)a person who demands the rent of the premises concerned:
and any such agent or person to whom such a request is made shall forward it to the landlord as soon as may be.
(4)A landlord who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a request under this section, and a person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him by subsection (3), commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

poppysarah

Ooo la la!

Now that'd be fun for the mushroom laden tenant to ask for that.

theartfullodger

'scuse my ignorance but what were you referring to in

mushroom laden tenant

???

only askin' out of curiosity...

PS re Ltd companies you can of course get Directors addresses (usually their homes..) from Companies House anyway for £1 British, in about 10 minutes .. (e.g. for ACPO, not a Government body but a Ltd company, CH lists many interesting home addresses of various Chief Constables...wonder if the Cheif Constables & their wives/partners know..)

poppysarah

A neighbour has a mushroom or six growing on some damp and the landlord is away in France so the lady who answers the phone tells her.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2124657


She has the contact details for him at his registered office and that's all.

Jowo_2

Here is guidance to the legal requirements for landlords providing their address

http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/landlord's_address.htm

theartfullodger

So reading that, a letting agency doesn't have to supply the actual home address, under the data protection act, unless it's for legal proceedings?

Sigh! See post 4 above re. Section 1 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 (TBS...)

1 Disclosure of landlord’s identity

(1)If the tenant of premises occupied as a dwelling makes a written request for the landlord’s name and address to—
(a)any person who demands, or the last person who received, rent payable under the tenancy, or
(b)any other person for the time being acting as agent for the landlord, in relation to the tenancy,
that person shall supply the tenant with a written statement of the landlord’s name and address within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which he receives the request.
(2)A person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with subsection (1) commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(3)In this section and section 2—
(a)“tenant” includes a statutory tenant; and
(b)“landlord” means the immediate landlord.

(If Landlord is not an individual, Section 2 applies to corporate bodies, see above, post 6)