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Commercial rents and COVID-19: call for evidence (6 April 2021)
Open consultation
Commercial rents and COVID-19: call for evidence
From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Published:
6 April 2021
Applies to:
England
Summary
This supports the government’s decision to review measures on commercial lease evictions established by section 82 of the Coronavirus Act 2020.
This consultation is being held on another website.
This consultation closes at
11:45pm on 4 May 2021
Consultation description
This call for evidence will support the government’s decision making on the best way to withdraw or replace these measures while preserving tenant businesses and the millions of jobs that they support.
If there is evidence that productive discussions between landlords and tenants are not taking place, and that this represents a substantial and ongoing threat to jobs and livelihoods, the government will not hesitate to intervene further.
The measures which are the subject of this call for evidence are:
- the moratorium on commercial lease evictions established by section 82 of the Coronavirus Act 2020; and
- the restrictions on the use of Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) established by the Taking Control of Goods (Amendment)(Coronavirus) Regulations 2021
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Published 6 April 2021