A seasonal property being let permanently

xstitchcrazee

I am asking the question for a friend who's daughter is in a strange situation.

She lives in a holiday chalet in Norfolk on a permanent basis as do a further 4 or 5 families. The owner/landlord is refusing to put the heating on as it would heat the empty properties as well as the ones being lived in.

The daughter has a husband and a two year old daughter. As the chalet is a two bedroom property their local council state they are adequately housed.

Surely the owner/landlord can not not put the heating on???

Any help or advise I can give my friend to pass on would be gratefully received.

Fire_Fox

Please run an advanced search, heating issues in tenanted properties comes up regularly. Have they written to the landlord asking for the heating to be switched on? If so contact Environmental Health at the local council.

G_M

It sounds to me like the landlord is letting the properties without authority. By 'seasonal property' do you mean these properties are only permitted (under Planning regulations) to be occupied for (say) 10 months of the year?

If so the LL should not be letting them out permenantly.

Be that as it may, if he has granted them an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (as seems to be the case) he has to provide heating.

Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 S11

1)In a lease to which this section applies (as to which, see sections 13 and 14) there is implied a covenant by the lessor—

(a)to keep in repair the structure and exterior of the dwelling-house (including drains, gutters and external pipes),

(b)to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for the supply of water, gas and electricity and for sanitation (including basins, sinks, baths and sanitary conveniences, but not other fixtures, fittings and appliances for making use of the supply of water, gas or electricity), and

(c)to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for space heating and heating water.