R (Bano) v Waltham Forest London Borough Council

Subject Matter

LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Refusal of offer of accommodation — Local housing authority making private rented sector offer to housing applicant — Offer letter not meeting statutory requirements — Applicant refusing offer — Whether authority’s main housing duty ending — Whether necessary for authority to make positive decision that duty at an end — Housing Act 1996 (c 52), ss 193(2)(7AA)(7AB)

[2024] EWHC 654 (Admin); [2024] 1 WLR 3645; [2024] WLR(D) 152, KBD

LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Refusal of offer of accommodation — Local housing authority making private rented sector offer to housing applicant — Offer letter not meeting statutory requirements — Applicant refusing offer — Whether authority’s main housing duty ending — Whether necessary for authority to make positive decision that duty at an end — Whether applicant having available remedy other than judicial review — Housing Act 1996 (c 52), ss 193(2)(7AA)(7AB), 202(1)(b)

[2025] EWCA Civ 92; [2025] 1 WLR 2557; [2025] WLR(D) 93, CA

Appellate History

Commentary

Nearly Legal
Decisions, decisions (and not automatic ones) – Ending the main housing duty Case comment

Prospective discharge of duty and review of decisions Case comment