The High Kingsdown estate in the Cotham ward of Bristol is seeing some students living in the area receiving fines of up to £250 for nuisance behaviour.

The landlord, who was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to charity, had been previously fined £20,000 in 2009 for illegally converting a house into 3 flats.

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The landlord had been found guilty of housing offences in his absence by Colchester Magistrates in one case and changed his plea to guilty in the second case before Basildon Magistrates.

We previously covered this case in 2022 when it was before the Upper Tier Tribunal (UTT) deciding on the council's decision to revoke a landlord's licences and refuse to grant new licences due to fraudulent licence applications.

The landlord identified himself simply as "a man" during a prosecution at Bristol Magistrates court brought by South Gloucestershire Council's private sector housing team.

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The council says that it chose the civil penalty route in this case, rather than a prosecution, as the fine "will be used to help support its private sector housing team

The appeal to the Upper Tier Tribunal (UTT) was brought by Waltham Forest Council in London but it turned out that the person giving evidence as the respondent landlord wasn't who (almost) everyone thought he was.