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Accessing accommodation

Health and social care

Tenancy

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Accommodation

Requests for Reviews and Legal support

We appreciate that in many circumstances an application for accommodation may be refused by a local authority, and sometimes without good reason. The individual may feel that this decision was unfair and should be challenged.

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Tenancy

Before a tenancy

A tenancy agreement is an agreement between two parties (usually known as the “landlord” and the “tenant“), under which the landlord grants the tenant the right to exclusively occupy an area of land (the “property“) for a certain period of time (the “term“).

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Tenancy

During a tenancy

Broadly speaking, a tenant is free to do what they want within the area that is leased to them, as long as they comply with their obligations in the tenancy agreement

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