[2025] UKUT 196 (LC)

Case No: LC-2025-31

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

Ref: CAM/22UH/HNA/2023/0009

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand,

London WC2A 2LL

23 June 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – CIVIL PENALTY – unlicensed HMO – letting agent acting on a “let only” basis – tenant paying deposit and first month’s rent to agent before moving in – whether letting agent a “person managing” the HMO – s. 263(3), Housing Act 2004 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

KARTAL CETIN

Appellant

-and-

EPPING FOREST DISTRICT COUNCIL

Respondent

90 Borders Lane,

Loughton,

Essex IG10 3QX

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

17 June 2025

The appellant did not attend the hearing of the appeal and was not represented

Niamh O’Brien, instructed by The Head of Legal Services, Epping Forest District Council, for the

respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Clearsprings Ready Homes Ltd, R (On the Application Of) v Swindon Magistrates' Court [2024] EWHC 2023 (Admin), [2025] 1 WLR 2118

Jacques v Liverpool City Council (1997) 29 H.L.R. 82