An activist group that has staged many protests against letting agents must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to...
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The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...
25 March 2022
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Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...
16 June 2021
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Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...
04 May 2021
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At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...
09 April 2021
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Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...
11 March 2021
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Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...
05 March 2021
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The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...
18 February 2021
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A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...
24 December 2020
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Councillors from a town council in Wales are to be given an audience with the country’s First Minister to discuss the...
24 November 2020
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The renters’ group ACORN, which has held numerous protests at individual letting agents’ offices, has apologised after one of its local...
28 August 2020
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The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...
20 August 2020
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Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...
26 March 2020
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The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...
05 March 2020
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A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...
16 January 2020
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A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...
28 October 2019
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A senior Labour politician in Sheffield and the campaign group Acorn have both expressed support for a selective licensing scheme to...
25 September 2019
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Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...
17 September 2019
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An activists’s group which in the past has held protests immediately outside letting agents’ offices is appealing for £10,000 to develop...
21 June 2019
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The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting on...
18 April 2019
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Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...
30 November 2018
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A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...
26 November 2018
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The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...
01 October 2018
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Liquidators Grant Thornton says funds found in the accounts of a Guernsey lettings agent are likely to be sufficient to pay...
21 September 2018
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Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...
11 July 2017
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Protests planned by tenants’ groups for many Santander bank branches over the past weekend turned instead into celebrations after the institution...
20 February 2017
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A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...
08 December 2016
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The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...
30 August 2016
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A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...
21 April 2016
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A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...
17 February 2016
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A tenants’ campaign group is planning a series of protests this coming weekend outside offices of lettings agencies which allegedly do...
28 October 2015
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The Green Party candidate for London Mayor says protests outside the MIPIM property conference have her backing as they highlight that...
22 October 2015
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A so-called 'ethical lettings charter' established by a group that has campaigned against some letting agencies, is set to be adopted...
08 October 2015
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Tenants on a social housing estate in north east London are to be asked to pay a means-tested rent - thought...
19 August 2015
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A campaign group protesting against the government’s Budget proposal to limit the tax breaks for buy to let investors has been...
11 August 2015
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A group of renters who have formed the Acorn group in Bristol - which has already held protests against letting agents...