Common use of Using the property Clause in Contracts

Using the property. 1. You must use the property as your principal private home, and you may not run a business at the property or allow anyone else to do so without our consent. Consent is likely to be with-held if it is likely to give rise to a Business Tenancy to which Part ii Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 applies or if it is likely to cause a nuisance to occupiers of neighbouring properties or significantly increase wear and tear to the property, or breach planning rulesS35 and s36 SMALL BUSINESS & EMPLOYMENT ACT 2015 may allow internet businesses, Zoom Training, office workers working from home, financial consultancies, advertising consultancies where limited visitors to the property takes place. 2. You may allow people to live in the property as lodgers if we agree in writing. 3. You may transfer this contract if we agree. The person who you transfer the contract to must be suitable both in terms of their financial situation and their character. If you transfer this contract, any person who has guaranteed your responsibilities under this contract is released from that guarantee after you transfer this contract. We may refuse to transfer if a suitable guarantor cannot be found. You must not transfer this contract within the first three months of your tenancy. We will not unreasonably withhold our permission. 4. You must not allow the property to become overcrowded. 5. If the property is not a licensed house in multiple occupation, you must not allow more people to move in so related. Your local council can explain local laws. IF THERE IS A BREACH YOU RISK BEING PROSECUTED AND FINED BY THE COUNCIL AS YOU, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE LEGISLATION, WILL BE THE LANDLORD OF THE EXCESS NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS 6. If as a result of you breaking 4 and 5 of this condition, we or our agent are fined, you must pay us or our agent the amount of those fines and any reasonable legal costs we have to pay. 7. You must use all locks that are fitted to the property and set the burglar alarm (if there is one) when you go out. You must tell us or our agent if you change the burglar alarm code in case we need to enter in an emergency. 8. You must not give a key to anyone other than a person named as a tenant on this contract, a member of your family living at the property, or an authorised lodger. If at the end of the tenancy we believe that we have not received all the keys to the property, you will have to pay our reasonable costs for fitting replacement locks. That is because we have a duty to make sure that future tenants are protected. You must keep the property secure. 9. You must test smoke alarms and CO detectors every month and replace batteries as needed. If the alarm ceases to work you must notify us.

Using the property. 1(a) You must live in your home as your only or main home. If you are going to be away from your home for more than 42 days in a row you must inform us of this absence in writing. You should tell us: • When you are likely to return; • Where you are going to be and how you can be contacted • What arrangements you have made for payment of the rent; and • The name of anyone who will be in your home while you are away (b) You must not permit your home to become overcrowded. (c) You must not use (or let anyone else use) your home as anything other than a home. If you wish to operate a business from home you must request prior written permission from us. It is your responsibility to obtain any necessary planning permission. No permission will be granted by us which would result in a breach of Planning Regulations or cause nuisance or annoyance to neighbours or persons in the locality. (d) You must take proper care of your home, its decoration and its fixtures and fittings. You must use also take proper care of the property as your principal private homeblock and the estate. You must pay for any damage you cause. However, and we will not charge you may not run a business at the property or allow anyone else to do so without our consent. Consent is likely to be with-held if it is likely to give rise to a Business Tenancy to which Part ii Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 applies or if it is likely to cause a nuisance to occupiers of neighbouring properties or significantly increase for fair wear and tear or any damage resulting from our failure to carry out our duties. (e) You must make sure that nothing is thrown, dropped or allowed to fall from any window or balcony or any part of the outside of the property onto or into other land or property. You also must not store items or dispose of unwanted large items in the shared parts, block or on the estate. (f) You must not keep any moped, motorbike or similar vehicle, or breach planning rulesS35 and s36 SMALL BUSINESS & EMPLOYMENT ACT 2015 may allow internet businessesany other machine driven by an internal combustion engine, Zoom Training, office workers working from inside your home, financial consultanciesin an area which causes obstruction to any pedestrian, advertising consultancies where limited visitors or in any outbuilding such as a shed which is directly attached to the property takes place. 2. You may allow people to live in the property as lodgers if we agree your home without first obtaining our permission in writing. 3. (g) You may transfer this contract if we agree. The person who must make sure that you transfer keep the contract to must be suitable both in terms whole of their financial situation your property including any garage, outbuilding, yard, garden or land, clean tidy and their character. If you transfer this contract, any person who has guaranteed your responsibilities under this contract is released free from that guarantee after you transfer this contract. We may refuse to transfer if a suitable guarantor cannot be foundrubbish. You must not transfer this contract within look after the first three months of your tenancy. We will not unreasonably withhold our permissiongarden or any other ground including ▇▇▇▇▇▇, flower boxes and pots and keep any trees, bushes, shrubs, or grass at a reasonable size or height. 4(h) You must not replace, add to, alter or make improvements to your home including building any wall or erecting any structure inside or outside the property (e.g. shed, garage, kitchens, bathrooms, windows or something similar) unless you have our prior written permission. You must not allow any of the boundaries of the property to become overcrowdedbe changed or create hard standing to allow for the parking of vehicles without our prior written permission and all other appropriate permissions (e.g. planning permission). 5(i) You may only park or keep cars and personal vehicles (not including lorries, coaches and caravans) in a garage or parking space you rent from us or in a parking area we have set aside. We do not allow parking on grassed areas and pavements unless they are clearly marked as parking areas. If the a car or other vehicle is parked on our property or land outside, it must be in a roadworthy condition. (j) We may clamp or tow away any vehicle which is not parked in a licensed house clearly marked parking area or which obstructs other tenants or emergency vehicles. We may also ask you to pay any costs involved in multiple occupation, you doing this. (k) You and members of your family including your visitors must not allow more people to move repair vehicles in so related. Your local council can explain local laws. IF THERE IS A BREACH YOU RISK BEING PROSECUTED AND FINED BY THE COUNCIL AS YOU, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE LEGISLATION, WILL BE THE LANDLORD OF THE EXCESS NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS 6. If as a result of you breaking 4 and 5 of this condition, we or our agent are fined, you must pay us or our agent the amount of those fines and any reasonable legal costs we have to payarea around your home. 7(l) We may remove and dispose of any vehicle that is not roadworthy, is not taxed or which appears to have been abandoned. You must use all locks that are fitted We may ask you to the property and set the burglar alarm (if there is one) when you go out. You must tell us or our agent if you change the burglar alarm code pay any costs involved in case we need to enter in an emergencydoing this. 8. (m) You must not give a key to anyone other than a person named as a tenant on this contract, a member of your family living bring into or store at the property, or an authorised lodger. If at the end of the tenancy we believe that we have not received all the keys to the property, you will have to pay our reasonable costs for fitting replacement locks. That is because we have premises any gas canister which could present a duty to make sure that future tenants are protected. You must keep the property securepotential fire hazard. 9. You must test smoke alarms and CO detectors every month and replace batteries as needed. If the alarm ceases to work you must notify us.