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Environmental health officers are making a last ditch bid to save local council licensing. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health reckons that...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Landlords have only until Friday to give their views on a controversial licensing consultation from a council known for its aggressive...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Consultation time is short for landlords wanting to comment on a new licensing scheme proposed for Scunthorpe. The public consultation closes at...
19 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Amendments to be made to the Renters Reform Bill when it returns to the Hoise of Commons next week won’t significantly...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
An industry supplier is analysing licensing schemes and whether they achieve anything to improve rental housing standards. Yuno says questions need to be...
03 April 2024
From: Breaking News
A charity is calling for landlord licensing schemes which cost enough to fund annual inspections, and the issuing of “sentencing guidelines”...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Private landlords applied for licences covering more than 12,000 homes during the first year of a controversial council’s selective licensing scheme. The...
20 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Another council is consulting about a controversial selective licensing scheme. North Lincolnshire council says the proposed scheme is “designed to improve housing...
11 March 2024
From: Breaking News
A landlord has quit the private rental sector after a battle with his council over why his properties were put into...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Yet another council is consulting on whether to continue a selective licensing scheme. The scheme applies to several areas of Burnley and...
04 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Supporters of council selective licensing start rearguard action Some of those involved in local councils have started a campaign to save selective...
01 March 2024
From: Breaking News
A London council is consulting on another controversial landlord licensing scheme. Barking and Dagenham council’s existing Selective Licensing Scheme has been applied to...
21 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A landlord has warned her local authority that high charges for licensing are unaffordable without the fee being passed on to...
20 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Bristol’s controversial Labour council is extending previous licensing schemes to other parts of the city at some £1,800 HMO per licence...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A Selective Licensing scheme proposal is out for consultation in the Scunthorpe area - with a harsh message from a council...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A council has won an appeal to enforce a Financial Penalty Notice that was served on a landlord who let out...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A legal services provider is claiming that landlords risk criminal prosecution for breaches of licensing rules that are often “unreasonable and...
02 February 2024
From: Breaking News
New additional and selective licensing schemes are to be considered by the controversial Bristol city council. The council’s Labour Mayor - Marvin...
01 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A council claims “hundreds of residents have been made safer in their homes” thanks to a licencing regime. Sheffield council insists the...
31 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, designed to give landlords more protection, have won the backing of a prominent industry figure. Neil Cobbold,...
23 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The National Residential Landlords Association is urging MPs to back what it describes as “pragmatic” changes to the Renters Reform Bill...
19 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A Labour-controlled council is inviting private rental sector representatives to a round-table event which it pledges will not be a talking...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
An additional licensing scheme for HMOs has come into effect in a London borough. The new scheme will cover properties in Greenwich which...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A new council licensing scheme has been given the go ahead by the government. Peterborough council’s selective licensing scheme will be run...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s emerged that Housing Secretary approved yet another vast landlord licensing system just days before Christmas. On December Gove gave approval to...
28 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Gedling council in Nottinghamshire is launching a consultation to renew yet another selective licensing scheme. The scheme was launched in 2018 and...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords providing much-needed private rented accommodation in part of Merseyside are to fall under an expanded licensing regime. Wirral councillors have voted...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has campaigned for a selective licensing regime in her Leeds constituency. She joined the city council leader...
14 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has given a warm welcome to many of the provision in the Renters Reform Bill...
13 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Councils in Greater Manchester admit to charging landlords over £14,000 for “officer time” involved in licensing schemes. There are currently eight selective...
11 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Almost all landlords letting out properties in a London borough will soon be legally required to have a selective license. It’s one...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A controversial licensing scheme is due to come into force tomorrow - just as the council administering it has declared itself...
30 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Stockton-on-Tees is the latest council seeking people's views on the introduction of Selective Licensing for private rented housing. It launched a consultation...
09 November 2023
From: Breaking News
A north of England council says it’s reviewing the fees for its selective licensing scheme “in terms of potential impact on...
31 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £50,000 for failing to adhere to licensing legal requirements on several rental properties,...
30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Plans to introduce Selective Licensing of privately rented properties have been agreed by leading Stockton-on-Tees councillors and now go for consultation. Under...
20 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Blackpool council will next week consider a new selective licensing scheme for some of the town’s privately rented properties. The scheme will...
13 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A council is telling landlords that its new selective licensing fee is so low it should be entirely tax deductible and...
25 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Brent council in North London has launched a new selective licensing regime across part of the borough. Landlords who let properties in the...
19 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A London council is looking to introduce new licensing for landlords. Currently Wandsworth council operates mandatory licensing for HMOs with five or...
18 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords are being advised to be on their guard and not be duped by social media messages urging them to flout...
01 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Bristol’s Labour-controlled council says it wants to spend some £17m of local council tax payers’ money on two new licensing schemes...
31 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A Labour council says local landlords have only a week to apply for a licence before a big rise in the...
23 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A London council is telling landlords that if they don’t apply for a licence in the next nine days they face...
21 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords are unwittingly exposing their tenants to the serious danger of fire because they opt for the cheaper option when hiring...
16 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A statement from Oxford’s Labour controlled council says private landlords in the city have under a month to apply for a...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A controversial licensing scheme will come into force this winter with the blessing of Housing Secretary Michael Gove. Nottingham council’s selective licensing...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords providing accommodation on the Wirral are likely to get further licensing as a new consultation goes ahead. The proposals suggest continuing...
31 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords of more than 5,000 homes must register for a license and ensure their tenants have good quality housing or face...
28 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Southwark’s Labour council has won the backing of Housing Secretary Michael Gove for one of the largest private landlord licensing schemes...
19 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A new law requiring landlords in three wards of the London borough of Brent to pay for a selective licence will...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
London landlords and letting agents have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...
10 July 2023
From: Breaking News
One of London’s most aggressive landlord licensing regimes says it has an early-bird offer running until July 14. Landlords applying for Newham...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...
02 June 2023
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Labour is considering raising the buy to let and holiday home stamp duty surcharge above the current three per cent if...
15 May 2023
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s largest landlord licensing regimes has expanded even more this week. Some 700 more private sector homes in Manchester...
11 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Next Thursday voters up and down the country will be casting their votes in a series of local elections which are...
29 April 2023
From: The Big Issues
Landlords are exiting the market in droves. According to an accountancy firm who analysed HMRC data, 70,000 buy-to-let landlords left the sector...
06 April 2023
From: Sponsored Content
There have been no fewer than 10 different enquiries into selective licensing of landlords or rental properties by local councils -...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
A council launching a new selective licensing regime admits that three quarters of the applicants so far have omitted to provide...
07 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Charnwood council in the East Midlands is now accepting applications from landlords of private rented properties that are covered by two...
06 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A private landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 by magistrates for failing to properly licence a rented property. The...
03 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords and letting agents are invited to join a virtual forum for details of a new licensing requirements and to find...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Labour controlled Nottingham council is introducing a new licensing scheme - and tells landlords not to raise rents to pay the...
23 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The local media in Yorkshire says Labour’s Rachel Reeves - the Shadow Chancellor - is campaigning for the introduction of a...
12 January 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s claimed that Liverpool’s Labour council would take almost 150 years to process applications for its landlord licensing scheme. The council has...
08 December 2022
From: Breaking News
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to make it easier for councils...
30 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A Labour council introducing a vast new licensing regime claims its typical cost to a landlord would be just 0.5 per...
23 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A new property licensing scheme that claims to provide “safer, well managed housing for renters” has now come into force in...
21 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A borough-wide consultation on landlord licensing for privately rented properties in Brent is taking place for the next 12 weeks. The online...
02 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A Selective Licensing scheme introduced by a council back in 2016 is set for expansion. Middlesbrough council claims that its scheme has...
25 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords in one part of the country are being told they must apply for their selective license in just the next six...
20 October 2022
From: Breaking News
A new selective licensing scheme has been launched this week in Leicester. The scheme will be in operation in three main cluster...
11 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords and agents are being asked their views on proposals to expand Selective Licensing to eight new areas of Manchester. There are...
11 October 2022
From: Breaking News
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities has approved a London council’s plan to introduce a new private rented property...
05 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Greenwich council in south London has launched a new selective licensing scheme: all private-rented single-household properties in five wards of the...
04 October 2022
From: Breaking News
From November Gedling council in Nottinghamshire wants its Selective Licensing extended to four additional wards. This follows a pilot where over 78...
28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Birmingham council has been granted permission by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to introduce a massive Selective Licensing...
21 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Oxford’s private rented sector faces its biggest shake up in over a decade with the start of a new licensing scheme...
05 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Activists in the Acorn group is hoping to attract Labour councillors who run Leeds to a meeting next week, which will...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
With a month to go until a new licensing scheme for private rented homes starts, Oxford council is urging landlords to...
03 August 2022
From: Breaking News
New selective licensing measures are to be introduced across three parts of Leicester in a new clampdown on landlords. The combined areas...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A council says it’s launching a rolling programme of inspections of all 29,000 rental properties in its selective licensing scheme. The scheme...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News
London-focussed lettings agency Douglas & Gordon gives its rundown on what new landlords should know to get the most out of...
02 July 2022
From: Agent Advice
A new Selective Licensing scheme for private landlords in Nottingham has been approved by the city council and now goes for...
31 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A council has imposed fines on five landlords for licensing breaches. Doncaster’s Selective Licensing scheme was introduced - so the council claims...
31 May 2022
From: Breaking News
It’s now daggers-drawn between the National Residential Landlords Association and Oxford’s Labour-run council over a huge new licensing scheme. Government approval of...
26 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Another council is conducting a consultation process aimed at renewing its existing landlord licensing for a further five years. Sefton council has...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A consultation is underway into the extension of yet another private landlord licensing scheme for a further five years. Since March 2018...
10 May 2022
From: Breaking News
The government has given the green light to two selective licensing schemes in areas of Burnley. The previous five-year schemes expired at...
05 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Gedling council in Nottinghamshire is the latest local authority to resume consultations on Selective Licensing after putting initial proposals on ice...
03 May 2022
From: Breaking News
In this guides and tips piece, Kerry Barber, head of Compliance at Goodlord, and Leanne McCarthy, claims facilitator at Goodlord, discuss why this month's...
29 April 2022
From: Legislation, Regulation & Compliance
All private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence from this September, following a green light from the government. Some 49.3...
29 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A council is considering imposing Banning Orders on unregulated and ‘informal’ landlords who have no lettings background and who advertise on...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A Labour city council that has already called for powers to impose rent controls has now extended its existing landlord licensing...
11 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A council is launching a Private Tenants Charter which it says will set standards for landlords and private rental sector organisations...
25 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Oxford’s Labour-run council has called on private renters to join a new tenants union. A statement from the authority says some private...