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Private landlords applied for licences covering more than 12,000 homes during the first year of a controversial council’s selective licensing scheme. The...

An unlicensed landlord has been ordered to pay back almost £15,000 in rent to his tenants after they were forced to...

A Labour council says local landlords have only a week to apply for a licence before a big rise in the...

A statement from Oxford’s Labour controlled council says private landlords in the city have under a month to apply for a...

Licensing schemes continue to spread - even to the Channel Islands. The Jersey Evening Post reports that the island’s Chief Minister has...

A London landlord has been fined £2,500 by the local council for letting an unlicensed HMO. The fine was issued after the...

A council has taken the unusual step of making an announcement that investigations are underway into allegedly unlicensed private rental properties. Cambridge...

Two landlords who jointly own a property to let in Wrexham have been fined for failing to licence it appropriately. Christopher Tye...

A London council is consulting on what it claims to be “a groundbreaking property licensing scheme.” Newham council says its licensing of more...

A buy-to-let landlord appears to have been let off paying fees of around £16,700 to license 37 rental properties in Stoke-on-Trent,...

A rogue landlord letting a cold, damp property with a lack of hot water and heating has been ordered to pay...

Action from Hertsmere Borough Council has left a landlord with a bill of close to £7,000 for letting an unlicensed property...

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined £1,000 for renting out a property in Peterborough without a licence which he was legally...

A private landlord has been fined £2,000 for renting out two properties in Peterborough without a licence which he was legally...

A landlord who allowed tenants to live in substandard conditions in Oxford has been handed a fine of £2,500. The poorly-maintained six-bedroom...

A landlord has been prosecuted by Barkingside Magistrates' Court for renting out a property in Dagenham with damp and mould issues,...

Unlicensed landlords with properties in Wales are being urged to register ‘to avoid legal action’, regardless of where they are based...

An unlicensed landlord who rented out a property in Margate has been fined £3,000. The property on Northdown Road, CT9, is located...

A landlord has been issued with a conditional discharge by Sheffield Magistrates Court after failing to license two rental properties that...

Two landlords have been fined for failing to sign up to Oldham Council’s Selective Licensing scheme, designed to improve the management...

Landlords in Oldham must not shirk their responsibilities and legal obligations, which includes signing up to the Selective Licensing scheme or...

The owner of a house in Colindale, north London, let out to tenants in a dangerous condition has been fined £25,000. Habib...

Rogue landlords in the London Borough of Barnet are being targeted by the local council as part of a crackdown on...