The Housing Act 2004 confers the right for the city council to recovery expenses it has incurred in serving formal enforcement notices. This includes Improvement notices, Prohibition orders, Hazard Awareness Notices, Emergency remedial action, Emergency Prohibition orders, and demolition orders.
The expenses which can be recovered typically relate to the cost of officer time, and can include determining whether to serve the notice, identifying any action to be served in the notice, and serving the notice.
The following charges will be applied, and a “Demand for Payment of expenses/costs” issued upon service of the following Enforcement Notices: