Keeping animals in your home

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You are allowed to keep small caged animals subject to various conditions which are detailed in your tenancy agreement.

If you have your own private garden you can ask us for permission to keep a cat, a dog or another acceptable animal in your home.

If you live in a flat or any property without its own garden we don’t generally allow you to keep animals. There are exceptions to this, for example a guide dog or hearing dog.   

Requests for permission to keep an animal must be made in writing to your estate manager. If permission is given it will be subject to various conditions that are set out in your tenancy agreement and any other extra conditions that we may feel are appropriate.

If you have permission to keep an animal and that animal causes a nuisance or disturbance to your neighbours or in your neighbourhood, the permission will be taken away and you will be asked to remove the animal from your home.

Please look at Clause 11 of your tenancy agreement for more details.