Notice to quit or notice to leave
If you have been served a Notice to Leave or Notice to Quit by your landlord or letting agent, there are several options available to you. The first would be to complete a Housing Options Plan.
Housing Options Plan
A Housing Options Plan can give you recommendations on suitable housing options.
You will be asked a series of questions about your current circumstances. It will take between 15-20 minutes to complete. We encourage you to consider all the options available to you.
You will be provided with your options, including advice on how to improve your current housing situation.
**Please note that this is not an application for social housing in Fife. Instructions on how to apply will be available after you complete the Housing Option Plan.**
Housing Advice Line
You can also contact us on our Housing Advice Line. You can do this by calling 0800 028 6231 or 03451 550 033.
If a Housing need is identified when you complete the Housing Options Plan, or call the Housing Advice Line, you will be contacted by one of our Housing Options Officers. They will discuss your circumstances in more detail and complete our Enhanced Housing Options process with you.
Our goal is to try and resolve the issues that have led to a notice being served and try to keep you in your own home. Where this is not possible, they will work with you to look for alternative options.
Other Helpful Organisations
- Fife Private Rental Solutions
- The FPRS team can work with you, and your landlord, to resolve any rent or other tenancy related issue; working together to help sustain your tenancy.
- Tel: 01592 201 849
- Email: info@fprs.co.uk
- Web: Fife Private Rental Solutions
- Frontline Fife
- Frontline Fife provide free, confidential and independent advice on a wide range of housing issues. The advice they provide depends on a person's situation and needs. Some of the issues they can help with include:
- Support with housing options and homelessness
- Advocacy with landlords to resolve issues
- Support to address rent arrears and preventing eviction
- Tel: 01592 800 430
- Email: info@frontlinefife.co.uk
- Web: Homelessness, Housing Advice, Short-term Housing Support, Addictions Support (frontlinefife.co.uk)
- Frontline Fife provide free, confidential and independent advice on a wide range of housing issues. The advice they provide depends on a person's situation and needs. Some of the issues they can help with include:
Once the date on the notice has passed, your landlord has to apply to the First Tier Tribunal Housing and Property Chamber before you can be evicted from your home.
Once your landlord applies to the Tribunal, you will be notified of this. A meeting will be arranged (called a Case Management Discussion) where you will be able to say if you disagree with the reasons the landlord is giving for ending your tenancy.
At this meeting, the tribunal staff can either:
- grant your landlord an eviction order, or
- they can refuse the request, or
- they can arrange another meeting if they feel that more information is required
If they grant your landlord an eviction order, there will be another period of 1 month where your landlord still cannot evict you. During this time, you can submit an appeal to the tribunal if you feel that something was incorrect.
After the month has passed, your landlord then has to apply to the Sheriff Officers for a date for your eviction. It's only once this date has been set that you can legally be evicted from your home. Your landlord cannot do this themselves.
