I just received a letter from the council, saying that an application has been made by the landlord to have the house we are renting inspected for fitness.
Now, the house is a damp armpit, we've had mould problems and while the landlord tried to fix the problem last year by adding a bit of insulation to the weather side of the house it hasn't made much of a difference. Everything smells stale and the ancient wooden sash windows are sometimes dripping with condensation - it's like having a fancy water feature in the living room.
However, this letter came completely out of the blue. Now, the landlord isn't good at communication but I would've thought he'd tell us about this? The form has also not been filled in correctly - it states a completely different tenant name and says tenancy started in 1989 when we actually moved in two years ago.
In the notes accompanying the letter it says that 'dwelling-houses so not require a fitness inspection if the dwelling-house was let under a tenancy which began before the commencement of the Private Tenancies Order of 2006'.
So does that mean since the landlord filled in the form with wrong information, they are actually not going to bother? The letter just says that we have 28 days to make representations to the Council whether the house meets the fitness standard for human habitation, so assume because of this, instead of sending an inspector around we have to now contact the council and clear this up?
And I've JUST LAST WEEK deleted the photos we had of the worst mould from my computer, too.