Legal to throw away?

vodouman

I guess I'll just let him do it then since nobody can be sure :S

Wee_Willy_Harris

You could just clean it?

Blacksheep1979

have you thought that other people in the house might not be happy with your mess and if you just cleaned up after yourself it wouldn't have got this far?

sonastin

vodouman wrote: »

I guess I'll just let him do it then since nobody can be sure :S

I'd be fighting him until he proves he's got the right to do it. Its one of those things that can't be undone once it's done.

Unless you're not really that bothered about keeping your possessions?

tamarto

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

have you thought that other people in the house might not be happy with your mess and if you just cleaned up after yourself it wouldn't have got this far?

Did i miss the part where it has been said the OP is not tidying up after themselves?

PasturesNew

tamarto wrote: »

Did i miss the part where it has been said the OP is not tidying up after themselves?

If they had been tidying up, then their stuff wouldn't be out/dirty/festering/disgusting; they'd be sitting smugly in their rooms thinking "Great, all that !!!!!! the pigs I live with are leaving about is going. Hurrah".

So it must be the OP's !!!!!!.

BitterAndTwisted

It's all very well getting up in arms but by the sounds of it, the landlord has given fair warning that the filth in the kitchen should be cleaned up, so why hasn't it?

If the OP wants sensible advice they should clarify what kind of tenancy they have and in what kind of property. HMOs are very, very different to a self-contained, private let

tamarto

PasturesNew wrote: »

If they had been tidying up, then their stuff wouldn't be out/dirty/festering/disgusting; they'd be sitting smugly in their rooms thinking "Great, all that !!!!!! the pigs I live with are leaving about is going. Hurrah".

So it must be the OP's !!!!!!.

Or shared !!!!!!, don't think anyone said it was dirty/festering/disguisting either, as we all know LLs aren't all logical or even dare i say it sane....

I read it as the ops LL putting all the kitchen stuff in the bin, i wouldn't be happy about having to buy my own just because people clean it before they use it rather than afterwards, eitherway i don't think it has anything to do with the LL unless it's returned in a state, unless HMO rules are different and LLs can go swanning about the place binning what the like...

G_M

The OP has not answered the critical question:

What kind of contract is this - what is the set up? The right of the landlord to come in hangs on the answer. So....

Is this an AST?
Is the OP a tenant or a lodger?
Is this an HMO?

From what others have said it sounds like an HMO.

If that is so, then yes, the LL can access the common (shared) areas. And complain about cleanliness (which affects others in the HMO, so it's not necessarily just an uppity LL).

However, the LL cannot dispose of the OP's property. That would be theft (legal definition: 'taking another's possessions with intent to permenantly deprive'). Tidy them away? Yes. Box them up (clean or dirty)? Yes. Move them from the shared kitcjen to somewhere else (eg outside the OP's door)? Yes.

Throw them away? NO!

So, OP, please clarify your contract. And remember, your contract is not always the same as the law. The contract may SAY it is an AST, but if the landlord lives there, then you are lodger, not a tenant, whatever the contract says.

Similarly the contract may SAY the landlord has the right of access, but if it is a (non HMO) AST, then he does NOT, whatever the contract says.