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The Department for Social Development (DSD) has indicated in the Housing Strategy Action Plan a need to establish a working group to identify ways of lessening the impact of repossession in Northern Ireland. Following a recent consultation event the Committee for Social Development has made recommendations to the DSD to assist in the formulation of this working group.
The Department of Finance and Personnel has launched a second stage consultation exercise seeking views on a proposed way forward for rates support from April 2014. The changes are needed as a result of the UK government’s decision to remove the council tax element of housing benefit in Britain and the rate rebate element in Northern Ireland.
Many applications for possession orders are made by lenders who have a second charge on the defendant’s home. Carmel Ferguson, Solicitor and member of the Legal Team at Housing Rights Service, discusses the Chancery Court’s approach to these proceedings when the property is in negative equity.
The Department for Social Development released its Housing Strategy "Facing the Future" for consultation in October 2012. With little fanfare, the Department has now published an Action Plan to deliver this strategy. The plan sets out a number of objectives and actions for the next four years (to 2017) and includes the key themes originally proposed in the consultation paper:
Ben Beadle, Director of TDS Northern Ireland gives his take on how best to avoid disputes over deposits. Ben has previously worked on the adjudication team in TDS and has first hand experience in mediating disputes between tenants and landlords.