Licensing

A landlord has been hit with a £23,000 fine for failing to properly maintain two HMOs.Landlord Lystra Dorval from Ilford was issued with not fewer than 10 penalty notices in relation to poor management of the HMOs in Essex. Officers at Tendring District Council say...

Oxford ouncil are urging landlords to register their interest in applying for a licence. A citywide ‘selective licensing’ scheme comes into force on 1 September which means that all private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence. More details can be seen...

A London landlord has been fined £1,000 for letting an unlicensed HMO in Tottenham. Having ignored numerous requests and failing to renew the licence, the landlord was issued with a penalty fee of £1,000 by Haringey council.The council has also said it will support...

Another landlord has been hit with a substantial fine for failing to licence an HMO.Ryan Antony Otto, a director of Otto Investments Ltd based in London, was fined by Hastings magistrates for failing to licence a house in multiple occupation and failing to comply with...

HMOs in Lewisham will now require a license to operate and will go through an inspection before being approved.A spokesperson from the council said that this “will help improve the quality of housing across Lewisham and help us protect residents from rogue landlords”....

A lettings agency has been heavily criticised by a property tribunal judge after it asked four HMO tenants to pay for the cost of licensing their property. The comments have been made by First Tier Tribunal Judge Shepherd about East London and West Essex firm...

Nottingham City Council has approved a new selective licensing scheme for private landlords in order to help safeguard and improve housing standards for tenants. Selective Licensing requires all landlords to licence any privately rented property they have within a...

Agents who manage properties on behalf of landlords face waiting until the end of this year to find out if it is they, or the landlord, who must pay a rent repayment order )RRO) when a licence has not been applied for, where required. RROs of up to 12 months’ rent can...

Oxford City Council’s ‘selective licensing’ scheme was given the green light, meaning that all private rented homes in the city will need a licence from September. Just under half (49.3 per cent) of all Oxford’s homes are privately rented. An independent review in...

THE Government has formally granted approval for the extension of two selective landlord licensing schemes in Burnley for a further five years. The previous schemes in Burnley Wood/Healey Wood and the Leyland Road areas of the town, which covered 2,000 houses, expired...