With over thirty years of experience, Watson Woodhouse has Housing Law Solicitors available to help you navigate prosecution against your landlord.

What is an EPA Prosecution?

An Environmental Protection Act (EPA) Prosecution is to provide tenants suffering in bad conditions with a solution, known as a statutory nuisance. A statutory nuisance includes any premises in a condition that is harmful to health and/or nuisance, for example, an infestation of rodents.

Through EPA tenants can serve a notice to their landlord to remove the bad living conditions within 21 days. If the conditions are not resolved within 21 days you can ask the Magistrates Court to issue a summons to prosecute the responsible party to remove or prevent the nuisance.

Free Initial Discussion

For a no-obligation discussion, call our specialist Housing Law Solicitors today on 01642 247656, email us at disrepair@watsonwoodhouse.co.uk or use our contact form and we will call you back.

Do I have to pay for legal representation?

If your case is successful, all legal fees are payable by the landlord. Should your case not be successful no claim for fees from you shall be made.

This makes this course of action one of the most accessible, tenant-friendly and risk-free actions available.

A full explanation in relation to the terms of our conditional fee agreements will be provided to you prior to the commencement of any action taken on your behalf.

How Watson Woodhouse Can Help

We are here to help.

Call us for a FREE and confidential consultation with a specialist solicitor on 01642 247656 or email our housing disrepair team at disrepair@watsonwoodhouse.co.uk.

Alternatively, complete our online contact form and one of our solicitors will be in touch or send your photos of disrepair, damp and housing conditions to our dedicated WhatsApp group on 078259 15604.

Watson Woodhouse Solicitors provides support to clients throughout England and Wales.