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"Beds in sheds" refers to substandard and usually illegal housing in the United Kingdom, particularly in Greater London. [1] [2] It is characterised by garden sheds being converted into living accommodation for private rent. Following the prevalence of "beds in sheds", Newham Council introduced compulsory licensing for residential landlords. [3]
Rent regulation in England and Wales is the part of English land law that creates rights and obligations for tenants and landlords. The main areas of regulation concern: the mechanisms for regulating prices (historically called " rent control ").
In the UK, planning permission is not normally needed for a garden office if you are only using it as a home study and if it is similar in size and construction to a garden shed. A garden office used as a home study does not need planning permission as long as it is not more than 4 metres tall for a pitched roof, at least 2 metres from the ...
The history of rent control in England and Wales is a part of English land law concerning the development of rent regulation in England and Wales.Controlling the prices that landlords could make their tenants pay formed the main element of rent regulation, and was in place from 1915 until its abolition (excluding some council houses) by the Housing Act 1988.
The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 (c. 1) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It defined the peppercorn rent as a price of one peppercorn per year and prohibited ground rent greater than that price on new leases.
OpenRent was founded in 2012 by two University of Oxford graduates, Darius Bradbury and Adam Hyslop, after experiencing the difficulties as both private landlord and tenant in the UK property market. [3] In 2015, OpenRent had the largest number of advertised properties for UK agents, ending the year with more than 2,500 monthly listings. [4]
Right to Rent is the name given to a UK Government policy contained in the Immigration Act 2016 [1] [2] whereby landlords in England have to check the immigration status of tenants they rent properties to, and deny lodgings to those who cannot prove they are permitted to live in a rented home.
Gordon Thorburn also examined the shed proclivity in his book Men and Sheds (2002), [19] as did Gareth Jones in Shed Men (2004). [20] Recently, "Men's Sheds" have become common in Australia. [21] In New Zealand, the bi-monthly magazine The Shed appeals to the culture of "blokes" who do woodwork or metalwork DIY projects in their sheds