Secure Tenants Sample Clauses

Secure Tenants. A secure tenancy does not have an expiry date. If you have a secure tenancy we will not interfere with your right to live in your home unless you break any of the conditions of your tenancy agreement. If we need to take legal action to end your tenancy we cannot evict you from your home without a court of law agreeing that there is a legal reason to do this. Secure tenants living in sheltered accommodation have the same rights as other secure tenants except where set out in this document at section four.

Secure Tenants. If you are a secure tenant this would be on one of a number of grounds listed in Schedule 2 of the Housing ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ as amended by the Housing ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇. These grounds can include rent arrears, causing nuisance or annoyance in the area of your home, the condition of your home becoming unacceptable due to you neglecting your home, getting the tenancy by providing false information on your housing application. This list is not exhaustive.

Secure Tenants. You must pay your rent, service charge and other charges (as set out at the end of this tenancy agreement) on the day your tenancy starts for the week ahead, whether lawfully demanded or not and thereafter every Monday. Payments made less frequently than every week must be made wholly in advance.

Secure Tenants. Secure tenants have the right to improve their home as long as they receive written permission from the Council first. Permission will normally be approved subject to a number of conditions and subject to the permission request being appropriate. This includes but is not limited to: • Building an extension • Removing internal walls • Changing the use of a room e.g. a living room to a bedroom • Adding, changing or replacing the fixtures and fittings • Installing a water meter • Decorating the exterior of the property • Erecting an aerial or satellite dish; • Installation of CCTV and monitored door bells • Building a structure e.g. car port, garage, hard standing, driveway or shed • Create ponds and/or carrying out major landscaping • Removing any tree, hedge or boundary fence or wall • Installation of hard/fixed flooring • Electric charging points for vehicles

Secure Tenants. You may take in lodgers but must not sublet or part sublet any part of the property without the Council’s previous written consent; this consent shall not be unreasonably refused. If you part with the possession of the whole property or the whole of it eventually becomes sublet, the tenancy will cease to be secure and cannot subsequently become a secure tenancy.

Secure Tenants. This section applies to secure tenants only. 5.1 As a secure tenant you must comply with the terms and conditions of this tenancy agreement, or the council could take legal action against you. 5.2 While you are a secure tenant the council can only end your tenancy by applying to Court for an order for possession for any of the valid reasons set out in the Housing Act 1985 (these are called Grounds). The Court will only grant a possession order if the council can prove it has a valid reason to ask for possession. For some of the reasons, the council also must prove it is reasonable for the Court to make a possession order or that there is suitable alternative accommodation available for you, or both. 5.3 Before making an application to Court for possession the council will usually serve you with a Notice giving the reasons why it is seeking possession. You will have the chance to put your case to the Court if an application for possession is made. In limited circumstances the council may be able to apply to Court without serving a Notice first, for example if there has been serious anti-social behaviour or is an urgent risk to a person or property (this is not an exhaustive list). 5.4 In limited circumstances, specified within the Housing Act 1985, the council does not have to prove to the Court that it would be reasonable for the Court to make a possession order. These are known as Absolute Grounds for possession and apply if you or a member of your household have been proven to have committed certain criminal offences or anti- social behaviour. In these cases the council only has to prove the Ground to the Court. Before applying to Court under an Absolute Ground, the council must give you notice and tell you the reasons why it is evicting you and you will have the right to request a statutory review of the decision.

Secure Tenants. Secure tenants have a number of legal rights subject to the guidance contained in the following pages. The main ones are listed below: • Right of succession • Right to take in lodgers • The right to sublet part of your home • Right to exchange • Right of assignment • Right to buy - This does not apply to a Supported Housing property within a complex in accordance with the Housing ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇. Some properties currently identified as older person housing which do not meet the minimal criteria may be still be eligible for the Right to Buy. In these instances you must seek advice if you would like to exercise this right BEFORE signing this agreement • Right to repair • Right to make improvements • Right to compensation for improvements • Right to see your housing records • Right to be consulted • Right to manage

Secure Tenants. If you are a secure tenant, we can only end your tenancy if we apply to the courts for a possession order. We can get a possession order by law.

Secure Tenants where the tenancy started on or after 1 April 2012 For secure tenancies which started on or after 1 April 2012 succession rights are those allowed by section 86A of the Housing Act 1985. This means that on your death your tenancy may pass to: (a) Your husband, wife, or civil partner (or a person who you lived with as if you were husband and wife or civil partners) if they occupied the property as their only or principal home at the time of your death; or (b) If there is no such occupier, under this tenancy agreement the council also gives the express contractual right to a family member if they occupy the property as their only or principal home at the time of your death and resided with you throughout the period of twelve months ending with your death.