Emma Hardman - Anthony Collins Solicitors

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.

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

Government consultation on tenants’ associations and obtaining tenant information Tuesday 22 August 2017

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 Thursday 3 August 2017

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 Wednesday 21 June 2017

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.

The Right to Rent Monday 25 January 2016

What is the right to rent? Essentially this ensures all people who let properties have the right to live in the UK. Landlords should only allow people to live in their properties if the have the right to rent.

Rent and Service Charge Reviews 2016 Monday 4 January 2016

Of course this year is very different with organisations having to apply rent decreases for social housing tenants (even though we are still waiting for the Welfare Reform and Work Bill to be finalised and new Regulatory guidance to be published).

Increase in Home Loss Payments (1) Monday 3 August 2015

Extra Extra Care Tuesday 30 June 2015

Those developed by RPs sit easily alongside schemes established by private developers, with both types of scheme undoubtedly addressing a key need within communities and providing a real choice of accommodation for those aged over 55.

Consents Update – Changes not as extensive as anticipated but a welcome simplification Tuesday 24 February 2015

The much trailed proposed changes to Category 6 (on-lending) were in the end not as extensive as anticipated: RPs can on-lend to group members fundamentally, as before, except if the lending is index linked.

Rents 2015 - 2016 Friday 16 January 2015

Although we are still waiting for the publication of the new Regulatory Framework from the HCA, at the end of last year the HCA did publish its ‘Guideline rent limit for private registered providers 2015-2016’.

Housing and Health – Working Together Wednesday 7 January 2015

To assist with practical partnerships a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) has been published “to support joint action on improving health through the home”. A copy of the MoU can be found here.