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Social housing - eviction for antisocial behaviour
Social landlords can seek to evict a tenant if they (or someone visiting them or living with them) cause antisocial behaviour.
About population screening. Retrieved from https://www.nss.nhs.scot/specialist-healthcare/screening-programmes/about-population-screening/ [accessed 21 May 2024] Many of these programmes, for example diabetic retinopathy screening, have...
SPICe Briefing
Committee meetings
1 September 2021: The Committee agreed to write to the UK National Screening Committee and other relevant stakeholders.
E.g. conversions can overlook each other with no consideration of privacy or light for future tenants. This shows the limitations of planning, meeting building standards, but wholly unacceptable in real terms.
Other costs may be incurred including updating IT systems and communications with tenants. 1Professor Hickman, P., Dr Pattison, B., & Dr Preace, J. (2018, August 8).
Social sector landlords need to get approval from the sheriff courts to evict a tenant. In private rented cases, if a tenant does not leave at the end of the notice period the landlord would need to get an eviction order from the First-tier Tribunal (Housing and Property Chamber).
Part of it involves trusting the judgment of professionals who know about screen. The committee has heard from screen Scotland’s director, Isabel Davis.
Richard Lyle said that there are issues for some tenant farmers. I hope that those can be addressed and that key stakeholders such as tenants can feel empowered in the future.