Bats in the belfry, windows are jammed - London flat renting, deposits & landlords

Fuck it @So_Gewürzt_it_hurtz I'll give you the answer:

In some circumstances, your landlord can take back their property without giving any reason.

To do this, all of the following must apply:

they’ve protected your deposit in a deposit protection scheme
they’ve given you at least 2 months’ written notice that they want the property back (‘notice to quit’) and the date you must leave
the date you must leave is at least 6 months after your original tenancy began (the one you had on first moving in)
you have a periodic tenancy – or you have a fixed-term tenancy and your landlord isn’t asking you to leave before the end of the fixed term
you haven’t made a complaint to the council about the living conditions in the property that resulted in the council serving a notice to the landlord (for tenancies starting after 30 September 2015)