Index card R (Pickford) v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

R (Pickford) v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Hearings

England & Wales

12 Apr 2024 [2024] EWHC 756 (Admin); [2024] PTSR 1374; [2024] WLR(D) 181, KBD (Judge Tindal sitting as a High Court judge)

Subject Matter

HOUSING — Homeless persons — Suitability of accommodation — Claimant applying to local housing authority for housing assistance as homeless person — Authority placing claimant and son in bed and breakfast accommodation — Whether authority breaching duty to secure suitable interim accommodation for homeless applicant — Whether bed and breakfast accommodation to be deemed unsuitable by virtue of statutory instrument — Whether appropriate to grant mandatory order requiring authority to comply with duty — Housing Act 1996 (c 52), ss 184, 188, 210(2) — Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2003 (SI 2003/3326), arts 2, 3, 4

[2024] EWHC 756 (Admin); [2024] PTSR 1374; [2024] WLR(D) 181, KBD

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