UK Landlord Disrepair / Repairs Demand
First-person self-help demand putting your landlord on formal notice of disrepair and requiring repairs. Tailors to England & Wales (Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 ss.11 and 9A), Scotland (the Repairing Standard, Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 — First-tier Tribunal), and Northern Ireland (Private Tenancies (NI) Order 2006 arts.7 and 17-18 — district council). You complete and send it in your own name.
Statute of Limitations Warning
Legal deadlines apply to your claim. You lose your right to act if you wait too long. Send notice as soon as possible.
Why this letter works:
- Cites the exact law: Automatically applies the correct state and federal statutes to your situation.
- Sets a firm deadline: Legally compels a response within the required statutory timeframe.
- Creates a paper trail: Designed to serve as Exhibit A if you need to escalate to an agency or court.
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Your Action Plan
This letter is part of a formal escalation process.
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Your tenancy and the disrepair
Tell us where you rent and what needs fixing. We tailor the letter to the repairing-standard law and the enforcement body for your part of the UK.
This letter will cite
Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 ss.11 & 9A (England & Wales); Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 Repairing Standard (Scotland); Private Tenancies (NI) Order 2006 arts.7, 17-18 (Northern Ireland).
Once a landlord is on notice of disrepair they must fix it within a reasonable time. If they do not, the tribunal, court, or council can step in.
Repairing-standard rules and the body you apply to differ across the UK, so this changes your letter.
The duty to repair runs from when the landlord is on notice, so the date you first reported it matters.
Before you start
What exactly do I get, and when?
A personalized PDF letter, written around the statute that applies to your situation, with the deadline and the consequence spelled out. It downloads the moment payment confirms, back here on commoner-law.com — there is no waiting period and no account to create.
How much is it?
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Is this legal advice?
This tool creates a self-help repairs-demand letter that you complete and send in your own name. It is general legal information, not legal advice, and we are not a law firm or your solicitors. The repairing standard and the body that enforces it differ across the UK. Rules change over time — check the current position before you apply. Do not stop paying rent without advice.
What if I need to change something afterwards?
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Do I have to pay to know if I have a case?
No. The rights encyclopedia on this site is free and cites the same primary sources the letter does. Read the relevant guide first — plenty of situations are resolved by a phone call to a free statutory body, and where one exists we say so.