[2024] UKUT 255 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-799

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT REF: LON/OOBJ/HMF/2021/0085

Royal Courts of Justice,

Strand, London WC2A

29 August 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – RENT REPAYMENT ORDER – rent to rent scheme – head tenant granting sub-tenancies for longer than the remaining term of head tenancy – whether relationship of landlord and tenant created between head landlord and subtenants – whether head landlord the person having control of unlicensed HMO – s.263(1), Housing Act 2004 – s.40, Housing and Planning Act 2016 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

AMLENDU KUMAR

Appellant

-and-

NIKOLA KOLEV (1)

LIAM NIVEN (2)

HOLLY MARSHALL (3)

Respondents

The Pyekle,

Holdernesses Road,

London SW17

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

16 July 2024

Tom Morris, instructed by Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP, for the appellant

Cameron Neilson, of Justice for Tenants,for the respondents

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Global Guardians Management Ltd & Ors v LB Hounslow & Ors [2022] UKUT 259 (LC)

Grosvenor Estates v Cochran [1999] 2 EGLR 83

Hastings BC v Braear Developments Ltd [2015] UKUT 145 (LC)

Metcalfe v Boyce [1927] 1 KB 758

Milmo v Carreras [1946] 1 KB 306

Pollway Nominees v Croydon LBC [1987] AC 79

Urban Lettings (London) Ltd v Haringey LBC [2015] UKUT 104