[Your address]
[Today’s date]
[Name of your contact or landlord]
[Your landlord’s address]
[Your rent/tenant ID number]
{REF: any reference number you were given when previously raising this subject}
Dear [your landlord’s name],
I am a tenant of [name of your block or building] and I am writing to inform you about the conditions in my flat {and those of my neighbours}.
{There is a substantial problem with mould in [name of room rooms or block].}
{There is a pervasive damp problem in [name of areas affected, or all parts of the flat or block].}
{There is a considerable problem with condensation in [name of areas affected, or all parts of the flat or block].}
This has been ongoing since [month or year] and has resulted in [describe some of the effects to your flat – for example, peeling wallpaper, rotting floorboards or window sills, damaged furniture].
{It is also affecting the health of [myself and my family/flatmate/s], who are now [suffering from breathing issues/stress/allergies/etc].}
[Text for English and Welsh tenants: As you will be aware, it is the duty of the landlord under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, section 11 to keep accommodation in good order, and under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 to keep rented accommodation free from dampness prejudicial to the health of the occupants. The Housing Health and Safety Rating System, introduced under the Housing Act 2004 also outlines hazards that landlords must address, and these include mould and damp.]
[Text for Scottish tenants: As you will be aware, the landlord of a Scottish secure tenancy (or a Short Scottish secure tenancy) under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 is required, by schedule 4 of that Act, to keep the house “in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation” throughout the tenancy.]
Please could you contact me at your earliest convenience to arrange a visit, during which I can show you the problem and discuss its rectification.
{To rectify this issue I would like you to consider [fitting extractor fans/replacing the windows with ones that can be opened/changing the heating schedule so that there are fewer extremes of hot and cold]}
I look forward to receiving your reply as a matter of urgency, but by [date, two weeks in the future] at the latest.
Yours sincerely,
[sign your name]
[print your name]
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