Landlord fined after breaching fire safety rules at student property
A landlord has been fined after breaching legislation – including for fire safety – designed to protect student tenants at a property in Birmingham.
Amit Sharma, age 34, of Brocklebank Road, South West London, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Magistrates Court to failure to obtain an HMO licence and breaching HMO Management Regulations at the property in Tiverton Road, Selly Oak.
He was fined £2,795 with £1,520.17 costs and victim surcharge of £170.
The case was brought after one of Sharma’s student tenants contacted Bir... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
