Case No. EWHC-185-(Admin)

76.In the original grounds the Claimant asserted that the Defendants failed to accept the Claimant’s homelessness application; failed to make inquiries as required under S.184 and failed to provide suitable accommodation. The statement of facts mentioned the interview on 12.8.2022 and the request for medical information made on that day by the Defendants verbally and by email to the Claimant and informed the court that these had been sent on 26.8.2022 but omitted to tell the Court that the Claimant had refused to fill in the requested medical evidence sections.77.In the amended grounds for judicial review the Claimant no longer asserted that the Defendants failed to accept or progress the Claimant’s housing application but instead assert, in ground one, that the Defendants failed to offer interim accommodation and failed to notify the Claimant that they had purported to perform their duty under S.188(1) by leaving him to stay in his flat pending the outcome of the long-term housing application. I shall make findings of fact below but note here that this ground wholly ignores the offer of temporary accommodation made on 26th September to the Claimant which the Claimant rejected. 78.In ground two (which overlaps with ground 1) the Claimant asserted that the Defendants breached S.188(1) by failing to offer the Claimant suitable interim accommodation and in the alternative that the decision to leave him in his flat was irrational, or alternatively that the delay had made the current flat unsuitable. In ground three the Claimant asserted the Defendants had breached their public service equality duties by failing properly to consider the Claimant’s medical needs and disabilities and giving inadequate reasoning in relation to those.