Apologies G|mp but I need to ask a question about TV Licensing

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Daughter has just switcjed acommodation again for her 3rd year at Uni and in the last two places there was one license for all the rooms.
This new landlady has just told me that because each room has it's own lock (like the other places) each person has to have their own TV license.
Is this true or does the one license cover all the rooms?
 
Thanks Acid.

Who dictates the joint tenancy agreement though - the landlady?
So if my daughter and other tenants have signed a 'single' tenancy agreement they obviously pay for their own.
Is it possible for the 5 of them to turn it into a joint tenancy agreement?

There must be some students who have gone through this.
 
If all the students are jointly responsible for the rent of anyone who leaves then that is a joint agreement, which means they would need one licence. To be quite honest I can't see TV Licencing doing too much chasing if the property shows at least one licence.
 
It's up to the landlord and to a certain degree tenants. With joint tenancy agreements become joint responsibility for rent and damages and if things went wrong landlord could claim the money of anyone or all of them.
 
We had a single TV license for the entire house even though we only had separate tenancy agreements.

Didnt get any letters from the TV licensing people so we assumed it was OK.
 
Sounds like the landlord knows nothing. It's not about how many rooms a house has under what locks. The front door, 1 property as many people in the house as it can fit means still 1 TV Licence. It will be fine just for them to all chip in for the licence. If they pay it up front it will be better if they can.
 
mrbell1984 said:
Sounds like the landlord knows nothing. It's not about how many rooms a house has under what locks. The front door, 1 property as many people in the house as it can fit means still 1 TV Licence. It will be fine just for them to all chip in for the licence. If they pay it up front it will be better if they can.
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Just like you then, it is not one front door one license at all.


AcidHell2 said:
It's to do with tenancy agreement not locks.

Joint tenancy agreement one license.
Separate tenancy agreement and watching tv in your room, you need a separate tv license.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ35/
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There is a 'living room' where they can all get together and the landlady is fitting one socket in there and buying a TV license.
I suggested that my daughter (me) pays the extra for another cable to come down from the main aerial and into her room but the landlady insisted she would still need her own license even if she had bought one.
 
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