3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM | less than a minute read

Eviction ban and longer notice periods here to stay till May

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Helen Tucker

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Helen Tucker

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As my colleague Emilie Pownall's helpful ebriefing below explains, the eviction ban has been extended to 31 May 2021. This no doubt aligns with the timing for the route out of lockdown.

The requirement to give six months notices on s21 notices and Notices for Seeking Possessions (NSPs) save for certain circumstances e.g. for cases involving antisocial behaviour, is also extended to the same date. We still await the regulations to confirm if the exemptions to the eviction ban or the notice periods will be any different but we expect not.

As the end of the current eviction stay looms nearer, the Government has announced a further extension on the stay on evictions until 31 May 2021 and an extension on the requirement for six months’ notice to be given to tenants in a move to provide further protection to tenants as the country moves through the roadmap back to normality. On 10 March 2021, the Housing Secretary, Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP announced that: The residential eviction ban is to be extended from 31 March 2021 to 31 May 2021, meaning that no evictions can take place during this time unless the matter falls within one of the exceptional cases. For further information on the exceptions to the eviction ban, please see our previous ebriefing on this topic here. The requirement to provide six months’ notice to tenants before possession proceedings can be issued (save for in exceptional circumstances) has also been extended until 'at least' 31 May 2021. Our previous ebriefing detailing the requirement for a six-month notice period to be given and the exceptions to this rule can be found here.

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