Permission - Various and Most Common
- Insurance Companies may require permission:
- to let a former home
- if a property is left vacant for longer than say 28 days.
- Building Control may require permission
- to conduct certain works particularly of a structural nature.
- Planning Permission is required to
- let certain homes via A4D in HMO designated areas
- let licensed properties
- Mandatory, Additional and Selective Licensing.
- let to Sui Generis properties (7+ occupants)
- let to any tenants in specific designated areas.
- alter the appearance or room numbers of certain homes.
- A landlord or his agent's permission is required
- to sublet.
- A Landlord's permission is required by his agent to
- conduct certain works in advance of instructing say tradespeople.
- A tenant's permission may be required
- to view a property following adequate notice.
- to conduct maintenance whilst in residence and even when absent e.g. on vacation.
- Lenders permission is required to
- let a property. This may be inherent as in BTL homes.
- structurally alter a property
- A Neighbour's permission is required
- to rest a ladder on their property or gain access in this way say to effect maintenance (which cannot reasonably be withheld).
- to work on or close to the boundary under the Party Wall Act
- Court permission is required to evict tenants via a possession order.
- A Freeholders' permission is required by leaseholders to let or sublet a property.
Published: 11 November 2013
Last Updated: 17 November 2021