Housing Disrepair

Tenant claims, evidenced properly.

Assemble a first-person CPR Part 32-format witness statement draft from inspection reports, repair logs and tenant correspondence, ready for your fee-earner to verify with the tenant. Backed by HDR-specific authority on the repairing covenant, fitness for human habitation and limitation.

Featured tool

HDR Witness Statement Generator

Upload the inspection report, repair logs, tenant correspondence and photographs you already hold for the housing disrepair file. The AI extracts the facts, builds a per-item account of notice, disrepair, damaged belongings and personal injury, and runs 14 compliance checks against CPR Part 32. A confirm step lets your fee earner correct anything before sign-off and export.

Import tenant attendance notes

Upload the typed attendance note or recorded call with the tenant and the AI extracts the household, the tenancy, the conditions complained of and the impact on daily life.

HDR evidence in, statement out

Drop the inspection report, repair logs, landlord correspondence and damp/mould photographs into named slots. The statement follows a per-item structure aligned to Southwark v McIntosh causation.

CPR Part 32 format and structure

15 automated format checks cover statement of truth, declarations, preparation-method disclosure, source attribution for every fact and the CJC-aligned AI-use declaration block, with an HDR-specific evidence checklist (notice, disrepair, belongings, injury, financial loss). Substance is verified by your fee-earner with the tenant.

Backed by HDR authority

Citations drawn from 46 UK housing disrepair authorities, including s.11 LTA 1985, the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, Pirelli, Quick v Taff-Ely, Edwards v Kumarasamy, Wallace v Manchester and Earle v Charalambous.

What this area covers

Repairing covenant claims

Section 11 LTA 1985 disrepair, notice requirements, scope of the implied covenant and what counts as a structural defect.

Fitness for human habitation

Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 claims - damp, mould, infestation, ventilation, structural safety.

Limitation & damages

Pirelli-line limitation analysis, diminution in value, special damages and general damages bands.

Pleading & evidence discipline

CPR 16.4 Particulars discipline, per-item witness structure (Southwark v McIntosh causation), and a five-category evidence checklist - notice, the disrepair itself, damaged belongings, personal injury and financial loss.

A disrepair claim stands or falls on the tenant's own account of living with the defect. The same witness statement drafting software that handles credit hire drafts the tenant statement here, using the disrepair authority library and the same automated CPR Part 32 compliance checks.

Tools available in this area

HDR Witness Statement Generator

Tenant-led CPR Part 32 statements built from inspection reports, repair logs and correspondence.

HDR Case Law Library

46 UK housing disrepair authorities, including Pirelli, Edwards v Kumarasamy, Granada Theatres, Quick v Taff-Ely and Wallace v Manchester, with judgment links where they are published.

Disrepair Chronology Builder

Auto-ordered chronology of notice, inspections, works and ongoing defects - extracted from your evidence and exportable to Word or CSV for the witness statement and the schedule of disrepair.

Backed by verified case law

Key authorities in our library

A sample of the precedents the AI cites in this area. Every citation is cross-checked against the database before it reaches you.

  • Pirelli v Oscar Faber [1983] 2 AC 1

    Cause of action and limitation in latent damage / disrepair claims.

  • Edwards v Kumarasamy [2016] UKSC 40

    Scope of the s.11 LTA 1985 repairing covenant for common parts.

  • Quick v Taff-Ely BC [1986] QB 809

    Distinguishing disrepair from design defects under s.11.

  • Granada Theatres v Freehold Investment [1959] Ch 592

    The repair vs renewal distinction.

  • Wallace v Manchester CC [1998] 30 HLR 1111

    General damages: notional rent and tariff approach.

  • Earle v Charalambous [2006] EWCA Civ 1090

    Damages assessment in long-leasehold disrepair.

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