My role

I lead the housing management team here at Anthony Collins Solicitors.

I advise landlords, primarily housing associations, on all housing management issues providing practical solutions to often complex scenarios. The work I do involves providing client training, including bespoke training, as well as speaking on the sector seminar circuit.

I also advise on the interpretation of leases in respect of obligations and rights in relation to fire safety, including replacement of front doors; and service charge recovery options, including issues relating to consultation and First-tier Tribunal applications.

My experience

I co-authored the latest edition of the National Housing Federation ‘Service charges: a guide for housing associations’ book. In 2013 I was shortlisted for Associate Solicitor of the Year in the Birmingham Law Society Awards.

My specialisms

  • Rents and service charges
  • Drafting, reviewing and enforcement of occupancy agreements
  • Management and service level agreements
  • Housing management policies and procedures
  • Supported housing

My latest articles

The Building Safety Bill: charges to leaseholders

Although the Government is providing funding to landlords to reimburse costs for replacement cladding works, charging for other fire safety works has raised a number of questions for landlords

The importance of data returns - updated deadline
The importance of data returns - updated deadline

Many housing providers are now re-thinking about gathering information to complete their data return to the Regulator of Social Housing, with the initial exercise having been delayed by Covid-19.

Home loss payment increases
Home loss payment increases

The amount landlords will have to pay occupants entitled to home loss payments is increasing from 1 October 2019.

Government consultation on tenants’ associations and obtaining tenant information
Government consultation on tenants’ associations and obtaining tenant information

The consultation document was published at the end of July and is available here. It sets out the Government’s intention to impose duties on landlords (by way of regulations) to provide the secretary of a tenants’ association with information about qualifying tenants (primarily their name and contact details).

Increase in home loss payments
Increase in home loss payments

Under the Land Compensation Act 1973, a landlord may have to pay a resident a home loss payment if the resident is permanently displaced from their home (subject to the circumstances and various conditions).

The future of supported housing
The future of supported housing

The future funding of supported housing has been a question for a number of years but the proposed Local Housing Allowance (LHA) changes threaten the financial viability of many of these schemes.

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