The book provides a comprehensive practical guide to navigating issues of and relating to succession faced by social housing providers, their tenants, and those advising them, from ensuring tenancy agreements and policies properly reflect a provider’s desired succession entitlement to defending possession proceedings where it is said no entitlement to succeed exists.

For anyone dealing with a succession case, whether you are a local authority lawyer or client officer, working in advice centres or Legal Aid Agency firms or representing yourself.

‘A Practical Guide to Succession to Social Housing Tenancies’ by Stephanie Lovegrove examines the law surrounding succession on death to tenancies granted by social housing providers. The area is complex, with the statutory schemes under the Housing Acts 1985 and 1988 and Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 operating alongside established principles under Intestacy, Landlord and Tenant and Contract law.

This book provides a comprehensive practical guide to navigating issues of and relating to succession faced by social housing providers, their tenants, and those advising them, from ensuring tenancy agreements and policies properly reflect a provider’s desired succession entitlement to defending possession proceedings where it is said no entitlement to succeed exists.

Author: Stephanie Lovegrove

ISBN: 978-1-914608-37-7

Cost: RRP £39.99

Publishers: Law Brief Publishing

Publication Date: 29 March 2023

Table of Contents:

Chapter One – Introduction
Chapter Two – What Is Tenancy Succession?
Chapter Three – Secure Tenancies
Chapter Four – Assured Tenancies
Chapter Five – Limited Security of Tenure
Chapter Six – Secure Tenancies Under Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016
Chapter Seven – Succession and Children Under 18 Years Old
Chapter Eight – Possession Proceedings
Chapter Nine – Conclusion