Inside Housing has reported on proposals to make it easier to evict tenants if they have been involved in criminal behaviour away from their homes will only apply if there has been a riot.
The Communities and Local Government department has this week confirmed it is extending its ‘discretionary ground for possession’ to cover offences committed away from the home, but it will ‘only apply to offences committed at the scene of a riot’.
Under current rules courts can grant possession if a tenant or resident of the home has committed an offence ‘in the locality’ of the property. Following last summer’s riots the government published proposals to broaden the rules to include offences committed away from the property