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Another council invites landlords to comment on licensing shift

A London council is inviting landlords and others to respond to a consultation on changes to its licensing regime. 

Ealing council claims the licensing scheme it introduced in 2017 has been a success in “delivering safer homes for tenants, more support for landlords, and a reduction in neighbourhood nuisance and anti-social behaviour.”

Now it wants to renew the existing borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs, and expand this element to include the majority of HMOs, rather than just the larger ones.

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It also wants to expand selective licensing to cover all rented properties in the 15 wards of the borough with the highest number of homes in poor condition. 

Under the schemes, a licence holder would have to comply with the usual management conditions but would also be expected to “properly manage any anti-social behaviour from their tenants.”

The consultation is open until early August and landlords can fill in the council’s online survey, as well as attending meetings in early June.

More details are available by emailing ealingmeetings@hqnetwork.co.uk or calling 01904 557197.

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    Clearly their Housing Dept needs more funds. I feel sorry for the tenants, who through no fault of their own will now get an extra rent rise.

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    The more money thrown at councils the more they'll waste and the more they will want, so glad I don't own any property in that area.

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    Another money grabbing exercise, licensing has done nothing, the rogue Landlords will always hide. In neighbouring Brent, in 2019, just 2 Landlords were prosecuted.

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    The whole aim of licensing is to give councils extra powers to fine LL’s for higher amounts. They want your investment earnings. They think it’s wrong that we should profit from risk & sacrifices we took. It goes against everything they believe in

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    Even Tory controlled councils act in a left wing manor, bitter and twisted, they hate to see anyone prospering from their own hard work and investment.

     
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    Councils! Don’t you love em. Legalised protection racket. It will be licensing that makes me leave this trade. It’s been said before and I’ll say it again, they have all the power they need already to prosecute landlords. It improves nothing but there purse.

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    Maybe they learnt their ways from the Kray twins in the 60s, because it all seems very similar.

     
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    How is a landlord supposed to "manage the anti social behaviour of their tenants?" Making nightmare tenants a landlord's responsibility is like rubbing salt into a wound, especially when so much is geared towards helping the tenant. Landlords need support is difficult situations, not censure.

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    That's easy Alison, just go round there with a loaded shot gun and let a couple of rounds off into the air, these anti social types are always cowards when it comes down to it, and before our friend from Leicester jumps on here I am joking about the shot gun.

     
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