The PSOW has issued two public interest reports on Trivallis which have found broader systemic issues in their record keeping and repairs service, failure to follow their policies, breach of […]
In last week's post on what I have called Coastal 2 (inaccurately, perhaps, as Coastal has since changed its name to Beacon Cymru Group Ltd), I set out the headline […]
This blog is about what I have dubbed "Coastal 2". To recap: in Coastal 1, the High Court found that those RSLs which had failed to provide electrical condition reports […]
For various reasons over the last 30 years (more or less), I have been taking an interest in the administrative justice space that affects housing. That includes stuff around local […]
At some point in February, Rent Smart Wales put out their most recent newsletter. For those of you not in the know, Rent Smart Wales is the organisation, run out […]
In the spirit of blogocracy, I plan also to signpost to other blogs where issues of relevance to Wales are discussed. Here is a non-inclusive list: The Housing Studies Association […]
I've been listening to Dan Hewitt's podcast, The Trapped, this week. It's a pretty depressing listen and, in a way, it tells us nothing we don't already know. What is […]
I need to say upfront that I'm not a fan of high level thinking about rights and adequacy. It's often pretty banal stuff and leads you into over-promising. The controversy […]
Following on from the post on the Coastal Housing case (about the need for service of electrical condition reports without which rent is not required to be paid), it is […]
This is the first substantive post on this blog, and it's a cracker which will have reverberating implications for housing law and policy in Wales: Coastal Housing Group Ltd v […]