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The excessive enforcement of council rules on private landlords while social housing is so poorly run will be ‘the next Post...

A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

Agents, landlords and others’ views are being sought in a consultation on proposals to introduce a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for...

A high profile lettings agent has written to his local council seeking information about an Additional Licensing scheme which has expired...

Two massive new rental licensing schemes are set to be approved in Brighton - and part of the reason is “uninterested...

Agents representing landlords of HMOs In Portsmouth are being warned by the council that their need to be licensed or face...

A London borough is tomorrow holding an online training session for agents and landlords on how to submit a licence application...

Birmingham’s Labour-controlled council is launching a consultation on a vast expansion to its existing HMO Additional Licensing scheme. The proposal is for...

Agents with landlord clients who let properties in Central West Bromwich are being reminded to check if they should apply for...

Another council is to conduct a consultation process to expand selective and additional licensing schemes for the next five years. Under existing...

Walsall council is proposing additional licensing to improve conditions and management of HMOs in five wards where there are high numbers...

Bristol council has approved plans to introduce licensing in more parts of the city. Additional Licensing and Selective Licensing schemes will be...

The UK’s largest ever additional licensing scheme for HMOs has come into effect over the long weekend.  Westminster council’s scheme will focus...

One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...

A London council has embarked on consultation over two new private rental licensing schemes - and says they are needed as...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

Walsall council in the Midlands is considering an Additional Licensing scheme for HMOs.  As is often the case with such schemes, the...

A London council has been found to have operated an unpublicised consultation exercise for a licensing proposal - and is now...

London’s Westminster council - with 43 per cent of housing stock in the private rental sector - has launched a consultation on...

A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...

A new private rental licensing regime in a London borough is being described as “a major step forward in improving living...

Oxford council, which has 49 per cent of its housing stock in the private rental sector, is starting a formal consultation...

Charnwood council in the East Midlands is proposing to introduce two different licensing schemes for private landlords, with agents and others...

Greenwich council in London has resuscitated a proposal to extend its existing selective licensing regime, put on ice during the Coronavirus...

A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...

A local authority has postponed the extension of its private rental sector licensing regime - but it’s warning agents not to...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

Enfield council in London has confirmed that it will introduce borough-wide additional licensing. It is also seeking consent from the government to...

A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...

The government has given an extra £3.8m to councils to come up with ways of catching rogue landlords - and in...

The government is being urged to speed up the release details of the future it sees for selective licensing following revelations...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

Research by safeagent - the new name for the National Approved Letting Scheme - has found over 130,000 unlicensed properties in...

It can be done - a council has U-turned on plans for a licensing scheme for landlords. The move by Hounslow council...

Another local authority has announced that it wants to introduce another selective licensing scheme and designate its entire patch for HMO...

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

Consultation is underway to extend a landlord licensing scheme in a London borough where a third of households rents privately.  Three types...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

Hounslow council wants its additional licensing scheme for HMOs - due to expire in May 2019 - to be extended for...

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by...

Agents and landlords are being advised to check the status of their HMO licenses in the London Borough of Harrow following...

A 10 week consultation period begins today on selective licensing in the central area of Blackpool - with the council threatening...

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

A London council is inviting letting agents in its boundaries to a briefing session tomorrow morning ahead of the introducing of an...

One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...

Brent council in London is seeking the views of agents- as well as landlords, tenants and others - on the extension...

A London council will introduce two new licensing schemes in the New Year. These make it a legal requirement for landlords to obtain...

Another local authority is aiming to set up its own ‘social’ lettings agency.   The proposal is one of five put forward by...

A new scheme governing the letting out of residential property above retail premises is to be launched in September in the London borough of...

An industry body is warning new London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan not to think he is helping renters by tying up...

A local council is consulting on the creation of a charter involving letting agents, landlords, consumer bodies and university accommodation teams. If...

Barnet is the latest council appearing to edge towards increased private rental sector licensing as it enters the final two weeks...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backtracked on suggestions that the government may introduce longer standard tenancy agreements in the private rental...