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One of UK’s largest licensing schemes revealed - consultation starts today

Consultation begins today on a selective licensing scheme for privately rented housing in 25 wards of Birmingham.

Under the suggested scheme, all private landlords in a designated area would require a licence to rent property.  

The council claims it recognises the good work of many private sector landlords in providing quality accommodation for their tenants and says “we understand the difficulties landlords face and we want to help them to offer long terms sustainable tenancies.”

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Commenting on the scheme Councillor Shabrana Hussain, responsible for homes, says: “Poorer quality housing and high levels of crime and deprivation have a massive effect on all of us.  This scheme will contribute to the city council’s priority of introducing more enforcement and licensing within the private rented sector.  I would encourage everyone to provide their views on the proposed scheme. It is only through listening to our residents and communities that we can ensure the licensing scheme focuses on what matters to local residents.”

The proposed wards have been identified as having a high proportion of private rented housing and deprivation.  

 

The Labour-led council says the new scheme, if approved, would “ensure that all privately rented properties in the designated area are of a satisfactory standard . would ensure landlords operating illegally are identified and enable those properties to be targeted for inspection … [and] would also provide a level playing field for good landlords and reduce the risk of exploitation of tenants.”

The consultation runs for 10 weeks and you can participate in it here.

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    Why cannot the tenants also have to be licensed to ensure equally that high levels of crime and deprivation do not occur. A level playing field for all.
    It would be unfair to say that licensing fees, being tax deductable, lessen the government money available for local councils.

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    Licence tenants? Never happen. It would be against their human rights, privacy laws, data protection etc.

     
  • Stephen Boyle

    So the council say “The council claims it recognises the good work of many private sector landlords in providing quality accommodation for their tenants and says “we understand the difficulties landlords face and we want to help them to offer long terms sustainable tenancies.””
    How is charging good landlords providing good tenancies and saving the council from having to house all these people helping us.
    Also you know the bad landlords won’t register so they won’t know who they are anyway. Just another tax on landlords.

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