Hello,
House has a case involving an application for planning permission. It has gone to appeal at the Planning Inspectorate. House has no idea about these things and House’s organisation are a bit stuck to. If anyone could be of assistance could they contact me privately at house184@hotmail.co.uk. House knows he hasn’t gone into much detail but [...]
Archive for March, 2009
LSC case anyone?
Posted in LSC on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Successful collaborative working
Posted in Random stuff on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House would be most interested to hear from anyone who works in any housing advice organisation where they successfully work collaboratively with their Local Authority whilst also maintaining their independence.
Whilst House is, in principle, rather opposed to the idea that you can do the two things at once House is quite open to the suggestions and tips on [...]
Sunday rant.
Posted in Gatekeeping on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
House was wondering whether there are any areas of Law other than Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 that are so deliberately disregarded and abused by a Local Authority.
The Local Authority that House deals with is slightly different from House’s old LA. House’s new LA is ’slightly’ better at taking Homeless applications but then just writes the most mind bendingly odd decision letters that have nothing [...]
Hola! Cheeky case name help please
Posted in Law stuff on March 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hello
A bit cheeky but can any wise sole remember the case (can’t remember how recent, but not that recent) in which a Local Authority tried to say an applicant wasn’t homeless as they had accommodation in some wierd country that was reasonable and available for their occupation. House thinks it was found that as they couldn’t afford to back it wasn’t available or [...]
Nic Madge article on Public Law defences
Posted in Law stuff on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House came across THIS interesting article on Public Law defences by Nic Madge on his website. Well worth a read for those that like House get rather confused at this subject!
The secret millionaire
Posted in Random stuff on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you didn’t catch it this week House would highly recommend you give it a view. You can watch it HERE.
Whilst House generally quite likes the programme this weeks edition focuses quite a lot on a Housing advice provider and many of the issues raised in the programme will undoubtedly be familiar to the few readers that [...]
Subletting in Social Housing
Posted in Random stuff on March 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If you haven’t already spotted it THIS BBC article is quite an interesting one.
Zimbabwe, HA’s and habitual residency
Posted in Law stuff on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mainly for House’s own reference! but there are new’ish rules regarding Habitually residence and UK citizens returning from Zimbabwe after 28th February 2009 but before 19th March 2011 (is that when it all gets better?)
Guidance can be found here.
House is sure this has been noted in Garden Court’s bulletins so House is sure everyone knows this already.
Still [...]
Social Services – Ed Balls bless you
Posted in Gatekeeping on March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
‘Their father is a self employed driver so the two children can spend the night in the car.’
Hurrah for social services.
So that’s alright then
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House survived the ‘BIG’ meeting with boss where House discussed some of the issues he’s rambled about on this blog. Apparently being nicey nicey to a Local Authority is because our organisation wishes to pursue ’collaborative working’ with Local Authorities. To House this means the organisation at least gets some money that might otherwise be spent inhouse (not [...]
