Notices

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Any formal or informal document from a utility bill to a legal document which must be forwarded or brought to the attention of the owner or landlord / agent upon receipt, e.g. to ensure services remain connected; or owners are informed of proposed building works to adjacent properties enabling an opportunity to object e.g. under The Party Wall Act 1996.
Notice to quit NTQ, is one of the most important and yet the most neglected notices in the letting profession. Ignore this and a landlord and letting agency may get an unwelcome extended tenancy.
Improvement Notice Where a property requires remedial work to bring it up to an acceptable standard, the local authorities can serve an 'Improvement Notice' upon the managing agent or landlord.
Failure to act upon such a notice is a criminal offence.
Section 8 notices to quit are used to formally end periodic or assured tenancies (see also protected, and sitting tenants)
Section 21 notices are used to formally end fixed term assured shorthold tenancies (see also protected, and sitting tenants)
Tenant Notice - Where a tenant provides a notice to leave a property, a landlord may be tempted to rely on this notice, thereby obviating the requirement to provide a counterpart e.g. a section 21 notice to quit s .21 NTQ. Landlords and agents should always provide such notices irrespective of a tenants apparent intentions. It is fairly common for tenants to change their minds perhaps following a change in circumstances and a tenant's need to remain. Landlords may be happy to retain their tenants, however, imagine the situation whereby a landlord in reliance on the tenant's unenforceable notice, agrees a new tenancy, back to back with the current tenancy. In the absence of serving a s.21 notice, the current tenant might be legally entitled to remain under a periodic tenancy - leaving the landlord to explain to the disappointed, even devastated, new tenants that they cannot move in as expected!
Tenants cannot be forced to leave without a court order but if they ignore a legally enforceable noitce to quit and remain they would be in breach and a prudently worded AST would provide for such breach, both as a deterrent and as a means to demonstrate to the courts that the contract provided for the mischief relied on to evict.
In some situations the landlord may issue a notice to increase the rent via a section 13 Notice. There are many formal letting notices.
A 'building notice' (submitted by those carrying out alterations to Building Control on a formal building notice form) can avoid an application for full planning permission, avoiding delays in commencing works considered within permitted development. Normally smallish works. E.g. demolishing a loadbearing internal wall (to be supported meantime by props and ultimately an appropriately sized and strong lintel).
During the Covid outbreak, notice periods were extended before returning to pre-covid notice periods (normally 2 months following 4 months of a fixed term tenancy expiring i.e. minimum six months tenancy).
Note there is no minimum tenancy period for ASTs. Tenants are not obliged to leave during the first 6 months of their tenancy regardless of the agreed term.

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