A landlord has been told he can no longer hold a local council accredited landlord licence and has to appoint someone else to be formally responsible for his properties.
Raymond Baguley failed to attend the third court hearing of a case involving his alleged failure to have an appropriate council licence for the property he was letting in the centre of the seaside resort.
He was fined £750 and also ordered to pay £350 costs and £75 victims surcharge. But critically he was also declared not to be a fit and proper person to hold a licence by the authority, and must nominate someone else to be an interim licence holder for the property owned by Baguley. He could face further legal action if he fails to nominate someone.
Blackpool's licensing scheme, in line with scores of others around the country, requires that all privately rented properties in a specified area have a licence and that landlords show they manage their properties effectively.
A council spokesman says the selective licensing scheme is making an enormous difference in the area by driving up management standards and addressing ssues of anti-social behaviour through a council inspection regime.
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Are we supposed to read this piece of news without falling over laughing
The council say the landlord is unfit to be a landlord so how are they supposed to know what a fit and proper landlord is In any case, ignoring some stupid council bureaucracy hardly makes him an unfit landlord in the first place. More than likely all this persons friends have the same point of view about a landlords license so one by one they will all refuse to subscribe to it when they have been nominated.
Was this scenario once a Laurel and Hardy plot