Trust to evict tenant for anti-social behaviour
Maidstone Housing Trust will be evicting a tenant from Shepway following anti-social behaviour. As well as losing her home, the young mother is now subject to an injunction preventing her from returning to the road and causing nuisance to others.
The legal action follows behaviour including damaging property, loud music, drunkenness and violence. Maidstone Housing Trust worked with neighbours and Maidstone Borough Council’s Environmental Health team to secure the court order.
The Trust’s Community Safety Manager Lisa Smith said, “Anti-social behaviour affects the whole community. We are pleased for the other residents that this activity will stop”.
The eviction will take place by the end of March. A power of arrest was granted by the court so that if the tenant breaches the terms of the injunction, she will be arrested by the police. The Trust’s Community Safety Team work with Kent Police and other local agencies to combat anti-social behaviour. The team secured three evictions at the end of 2006 for anti-social behaviour, and are taking court action against tenants recently found to be using their homes for illegal drugs activities.
When a tenant is evicted from a Maidstone Housing Trust property for anti-social behaviour they are deemed to be intentionally homeless. Neither the Trust nor Maidstone Borough Council has a duty to provide a new home.
date published: 09/03/2007