HMO Licence Fit and Proper Persons - Relevant Issues

Step by step guide for landlords and agents in Eastbourne for completing the application form for a property licence for Houses in Multiple Occupation.

Part 5 of the application form aims to collect information on all persons named in Parts 1 to 4 of the form, to enable the council to determine if they (or any associate of those persons) are fit and proper persons.

You must declare if you have:

• criminal convictions in respect of fraud, dishonesty, violence, drugs or schedule 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003
• findings by a court or tribunal - practiced unlawful discrimination of grounds of sex, colour, race ethnic or national origin or disability in connection with a business

• contravened any provision of Housing, or Landlord and Tenant law. These include but are not limited to:

  • Control Order under the Housing Act 1985
  • Proceedings by a local authority including taking enforcement action to remedy a category 1 hazard
  • The local authority carrying out Works in Default
  • Interim or Final Management Order under the Housing Act 2004
  • Harassment or illegal eviction 
     
• acted in contravention of any Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) in relation to the management of HMOs
• any criminal offence, contravention, or subject to any other proceedings brought by a local authority or other Regulatory Body (for example breaches of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, public health, planning control, or compulsory purchase proceedings or fire safety requirements)