Tenant's battle continues over dog

“In fact, the OFT considers it to be unfair under the Unfair Terms In Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 to refuse to allow a "reasonable request" for a pet. Whether the use of a communal entrance makes it an unreasonable request is open to opinion but I'm not so sure so if it went to court it could be the case that he would succeed and SVH would have spent a lot of time and money for nothing.”

“i have a lease hold flat from severn vale housing from what ive read in my terms and conditions as i had the lease hold before severn vale took over the property im allowed a cat or dog (maybe thats why some severn vale properties have pets in) having said that even though i like both i wouldnt have have either, people have the right for a decent standard of living and i wouldnt want to impose the problems a cat or dog could couse others living in the block, the guys next door to me went and got a small puppy but didnt give a monkeys about it pee'ing up the stairs and on the hallway carpet and no one could sit out the back because it became a poo minefield to thankfully somone complained and they had to re-home the dog”

“And you are right missymaddog, it is a waste of taxpayers money and severn vale's time dealing with this issue but if he stuck to the rules of his tenancy then this time and money could be used to take action on the 'scumbags' freeradical1 talks about.”

“To be fair to severn vale, missymaddog, it is paul regan who is making an example of himself by going to the newspaper each time he doesn't get what he wants.

i'm sure there are plenty of people with pets in flats, but severn vale can't do anything about it if they don't know.

It might not be a rule which everyone agrees with but that doesn't mean that it's ok to ignore it.

I feel for Mr Regan but perhaps he should put his efforts into finding somewhere else to live where having a dog isn't a problem instead. In my private rented property i can't have a dog and if I then bought one anyway I would be served notice by my landlord and asked to leave. The fact that it is a housing association property doesn't mean that a tenant can simply ignore the tenancy rules he doesn't agree with.”

“Oh, you lot are all heart.

Was that the rule when the property was owned by the borough council? Many councils allow pets in flats.

It's a shame that Severn Vale Housing Association can't be as forceful with anti-social tenants. If he had a scumbag child, rather than a dog, he would be just fine. Families with criminal children never get evicted.”

“I went to a Chinese zoo once and all they had was one cage with a small dog in it. It was a **** zoo.”

“Why doesn't he just move? If the lease clearly stated no pets, and has done since he moved in, then he can't really protest can he. He got caught out. Unlucky.”

“just put him and his dog out, whats the hold up?”

“There's got be more to this case than is being reported because there's loads of tenants with pets living in Severn Vale flats which the housing association seem to turn a blind eye to. Surely they wouldn't spend so much time and money on evicting one tenant for breaking the pets policy when they're fully aware many of their other tenants are doing the same. Either the full details are not being revealed or maybe Severn Vale are just making an example of him.”

“Agreed with others, he has breached his lease but somewhere there should be a solution to the problem, I don't think it is complicated.”