Massive fines given to landlords for first selective licensing offences
05 Dec 2017 Four Gainsborough landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68. They are the first landlords to be prosecuted under West Lindsey District Council’s selective licensing scheme. Magistrates heard one case at Lincoln in October and...Council announces free property licensing!
10 Jun 2021 Instead of charging landlords around £1,000 like most UK councils – for the dubious honour of going into a database – which the council will then use so they can easily inspect properties and issue eye watering fines, Jersey (which is of course...Council declares war on Landlords while stealing housing from them
07 Jun 2021 A council has explicitly announced it’s “on the side of tenants against landlords”. Totally ignoring the fact that landlords are its citizens too. And citizens they are legally required to serve! To date, this council boasts that is has stolen...Enfield Selective Licensing in 14 Wards confirmed
25 May 2021 Every single rental property in 14 wards of Enfield will need a licence soon. They will need either a selective licence, an Additional HMO licence or a Mandatory HMO licence. The civil penalty fines for failing to licence are punitive and almost...Labour Council hopes to vote in major Revenue Generation Licensing Scheme despite Statistically Invalid Consultation
11 Mar 2021 A Labour-controlled council says it’s confident a huge new Revenue Generating licensing scheme for one of Britain’s most high-profile cities will be voted through today. But it admits there’s a big clash of opinions between landlords and agents on the one...Industry calls on Councils to stop new cynical life-threatening licensing money-grab during Covid Crisis
22 Jan 2021 Momentum is building against councils pushing ahead with licensing schemes despite the pandemic and despite instructions from the government not to. One wonders why so many councils are going against the Governments wishes and public health concern to...False sense of security for Southwark Landlords as licensing expires for 15,000 rental properties
05 Jan 2020 It appears that a London borough council’s two licensing schemes have expired at the turn of the year, with no alternative likely to come into force until the middle of 2021 at least. London Property Licensing reports that additional and selective...Agent speaks out against ‘money making’ council licensing scheme
29 Dec 2020 A lettings agent has spoken out at a local council landlord licensing scheme, suggesting it might just be nothing more than a revenue-raising exercise. A selective licensing scheme run by Southend council, and now out for formal consultation, asks...Liverpool tries again to implement selective licensing tax
15 Dec 2020 In a cynical attempt to hide their revenue creation motive by stating: “The council makes no profit from the scheme. Every single pound we get from landlords would be ring-fenced, paying for our team [of enforcement officers] to be out on the streets...Click on image
