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Fair Rents Inspection
The Rent Acts (Maximum Fair Rent) Order is a Statutory Instrument (secondary legislation introduced by the Government) which came into effect on 1 February 1999. The Order made changes to the way in which Rent Officers and Rent Assessment Committees register rents following the assessment of fair rent for properties let since before 15 January 1989.
Since April 6 2006 a new prescribed national method for the assessment of housing conditions for the purposes of Part 1 of the Housing Act 2004, will be carried out by using the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS).
This new risk assessment system will change the way the council's Environmental Health Officers inspect and assess housing conditions.
The Rent Officer is primarily responsible for the constitution and the working of rent assessment committees, which hear appeals from either landlords or tenants and determines appropriate rents for their property. The Rent Assessment Panel determines appropriate rents for those properties in the private rented sector.
For further information about Fair Rents and Fair Rent inspections, please contact the Fair Rents Service in York using the contact details below:
- Web: www.therentservice.gov.uk
- Tel: 01904 477800
- Fax: 01904 477826
- Rent Service
York Office
Unit E, Aviator Court
Clifton Moor Business Park
York YO30 4UZ