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A property built without planning consent and then illegally let to a family has been knocked down by Ealing council in...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

A buy to let investor has been fined over £12,000 for illegally renting out a basement underneath an outbuilding at his...

A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...

A landlord has been fined £7,000 for letting two properties which were unfit for habitation. Shahzad Mehmood was prosecuted at Swindon Magistrates'...

A millionaire landlord who built an illegal outbuilding at his home has been forced to demolish it after pressure from his...

There was a series of raids on HMOs led by a local authority early one morning at the end of last...

An unauthorised outhouse with a concealed entrance constructed at the back of a residential property in west London - one of...

Two unauthorised outbuildings occupied by five adults and a child have been demolished by a London council after a landlord failed...