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Friday, August 31, 1973
NEW TENANCY SYSTEM NO THREAT TO SHOP TENANTS
The Housing Department today assured shop tenants in public housing estates who are being asked to sign long-term tenancy agreements that the new policy is not a threat to their existence.
The new tenancy agreement which is to replace the former tenancy card system issued on a month-to-month basis, is for two years in the first
instance and renewable for another three years.
Mr. Ralph Husband, Deputy Director of Estates Management, said today that some shopkeepers seemed to think that the agreement would mean immediate rent increases and an end to their tenancy after two years.
There is no question of tenancies being terminated," he stressed. "We are always reluctant to end tenancies and it would have to be a consistent non-payment of rent or repeated breaking of rules that would
lead us to take that sort of action.
"In the former Housing Authority and low cost housing estates there are about 800 shops which from the start have been on two or three-year
agreements, " said Mr. Husband.
"The majority have occupied their shops since the estates were first opened in some cases as long as 15 years. The same sort of thing will apply to shopkeepers in the older estates who are now being asked to
sign agreements," he said.
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