Get a licence – or face a hefty fine –if you are planning to let your property to more than two families comprising more than four people.
That’s the warning sent to landlords by Tower Hamletsenvironmental health officers – after bringing a successful case at Thames Magistrates Court, where developers JACCS Developments Ltd paid £2,130 in fines and costs for breaking rules governing letting of ‘multi-occupied’ homes.
The case concerned property in Bow, which had 12 tenants crammed into a building described as ‘a rabbit warren’ of narrow corridors and unsuitable rooms.
