Occupiers of Residential Premises
These documents for Occupiers of Residential Premises have been professionally drafted to meet the needs of tenants and licensees of houses, flats and apartments.
The templates are straightforward to use and cover a range of matters arising while a tenant is in living at a property, including subletting a room, making alterations, complaining to the landlord and dealing with the tenancy deposit. There are also template documents dealing with bringing the tenancy or licence to an end.
Each document is drafted using plain English so that it can be understood by lay people. Where it is necessary to use legal terms, an explanation in plain English is included.
The documents are constructed in Word format, and can be customised to meet your requirements. Please click on the links below to view details.
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Frequently Asked Questions
I am a tenant, are there template letters I can use to deal with my landlord? +
Yes. This set is drafted from the tenant's side rather than the landlord's, covering the situations tenants most often face: asking to sublet a room, requesting consent for an alteration or a pet, complaining about a problem, dealing with the deposit and giving notice to leave. Each template is in plain English with legal terms explained. Choose the one that matches your situation and adapt the detail.
As a tenant, what has the Renters' Rights Act changed for me? +
Quite a lot in your favour. Since 1 May 2026 your tenancy is an open-ended periodic assured tenancy, your landlord can no longer evict you with a no-fault section 21 notice, and you can leave on at least two months' notice at any time. Your landlord can only increase the rent once a year through the section 13 process, which you can challenge, and you can ask to keep a pet, which cannot be unreasonably refused.
My landlord is not dealing with a repair, what can I do? +
Report the problem to your landlord in writing and keep a copy, because your landlord must keep the property fit to live in and in repair under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. If it is not fixed in a reasonable time you can complain to your council's environmental health team, and you can take the landlord to court for repairs and compensation. The complaint templates help you set out the problem clearly.
Can I get documents suited to me as the tenant rather than the landlord? +
Yes. These templates are deliberately written from the occupier's point of view, so the wording assumes you are the tenant or licensee asking the landlord for something or asserting your rights, not the other way round. They cover dealings with the landlord and other occupiers and ending the tenancy. Where a legal term is needed it is explained in plain English so you can use the document with confidence.
