Submitted on Friday 5th March 2021
Rejected on Tuesday 30th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Landlords must be held liable.
Landlords should not rely on tenants/home owners to repeatedly make reports to police of criminal acts carried out by other tenants when being fully aware of such acts taking place.
Law abiding tenants are being forced out of their homes as a result of inaction by landlords addressing criminal behaviour by their tenants. Other tenants are forced to live a life of misery as a result of intimidation and fear of reporting criminal action by tenants to police. Police advise victim tenants should they report criminal activity of other tenants, and provide supporting evidence, the victim tenant would be placing themselves at risk. Landlords need to take responsibility and be held liable for not reporting their tenants known criminal actions to police. They should be held liable for not protecting their law abiding tenants.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
We understand you're seeking to make landlords liable for the anti-social or criminal behaviour of their tenants and make landlords responsible for reporting tenants' criminal acts to the police. However, we're not sure specifically what actions you would like the Government or Parliament to take, to achieve this.
Private landlords have the power to seek a court order for eviction when tenants exhibit anti-social or criminal behaviour. However, it is up to landlords to decide whether to take action against their tenants. As a rule, landlords are not responsible for the actions of their tenants if they have not authorised the behaviour.
For more information, see:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01012/
You could start a new petition calling for the Government to introduce a legal duty of care on landlords to protect tenants from nuisance, anti-social or criminal behaviour by other tenants of the same landlord, if that's something you'd like to see happen.
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