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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Property company denies trying to mass-evict tenants before England’s no-fault evictions ban

The high-rise Britannia Point development in Colliers Wood, south London.
Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh said she knew of at least 130 section 21 notices being issued for the Britannia Point development in Colliers Wood, south London. Photograph: Paul Gapper/Alamy

A property company accused of trying to mass-evict tenants in the weeks before no-fault evictions are banned has denied doing so, saying it is simply implementing “routine and lawful tenancy management”.

A statement from Criterion Capital, set up by the billionaire property magnate Asif Aziz, was issued in response to Matthew Pennycook, the housing minister, who wrote to the company to seek “urgent” answers about its plans.

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