A couple were not allowed to succeed to the secure tenancy of the relation with whom they had been living, which meant that they were trespassing on the council’s property.
Following the death of a secure tenant of Hammersmith LBC, the council sought possession of the flat from a cousin of the tenant (and her husband) who had been living with the tenant for the previous two years.
The cousin and her husband had claimed to have succeeded to the tenancy, but the council had decided that they were not eligible because it did not believed that they have been living in the flat for more than a year before the tenant’s death. This was due to a housing benefit application by the tenant, on which he had said that no one else resided at the property.
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