Understanding your tenancy
Tenancy agreement
Your tenancy agreement is a legal contract between you and Hackney Council and tells you all the rules about living in your property. Your tenancy conditions set out your rights and responsibilities as a tenant of the Council and our duties as your landlord. These tenancy conditions form part of your tenancy agreement.
Your tenancy conditions
Your tenancy agreement and tenancy conditions set out the legal obligations, rights and responsibilities for you and those who live in or visit your home. It also lists the services you are entitled to in return for the rent you pay.
- Your tenancy conditions – English
- Your tenancy conditions – Easy Read English
- Your tenancy conditions – Turkish
- Your tenancy conditions – Bengali
- Your tenancy conditions – Kurdish
- Your tenancy conditions – French
- Your tenancy conditions – Cantonese
- Your tenancy conditions – Polish
- Your tenancy conditions – Somali
- Your tenancy conditions – Vietnamese
- Your tenancy conditions – Urdu
If you break these tenancy conditions or the tenancy agreement, Hackney Council (supported by Clapton Park Management Organisation) may take you to court. Should the Council be granted possession order by the court, you and your family will have to leave your home. We do not want this to happen and will give you support and advice to prevent it, unless you gave us false or misleading information to get or keep your tenancy.
Types of tenancy
There are four types of tenancy depending on how long you have been a council tenant and whether you are the only adult in the household.
Making changes to your tenancy
To request any changes to your tenancy, contact your Housing Officer at Clapton Park Management Organisation’s Office. This can include:
- Change of name on your tenancy
- Change to a joint tenancy
- Change to a sole tenancy
- Transfer your tenancy to a family member
- Swapping your home with another tenant
- Pass on your tenancy when you die
- Ending your tenancy
Tenants running a business from home
You must get our written permission if you want to run a business from your home.
Apply
You can submit your application by post, email or in person to: Clapton Park Management Organisation, 4a Gilpin Road, Hackney, E5 0HL or cpmo@hackney.gov.uk
We will only refuse to give you our permission if we have good reason (for example, if we think that the business is likely to cause a nuisance to other people, including us and our contractors, or cause damage to the property). There are usually costs associated with this process which you will have to pay.
Before we give our permission you must get any planning permission,building regulation approval or other licences you need for the business or trade.
If we give you permission to run a business from your home, your customers, suppliers and service providers must not become a nuisance to other residents.
If a business you are running from your home with our permission causes a nuisance or damage, we will withdraw our permission.
Examples of business activities that will cause a nuisance
- Repairing and maintaining vehicles
- Printing
- Using noisy equipment such as industrial sewing machines
- Using controlled substances such as chemicals
If you have any questions about your tenancy, please contact your Housing Officer.