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A council is pleading with the government to think again about proposals to suspend the need for an HMO licence for...

A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

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

The government has given the green light to a council’s huge licensing scheme, set to cover 18 of its 20 wards...

More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to pay a £12,000 fine as well as over £12,000 in court costs, after...

Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...

A landlord has become the first to be prosecuted by Waltham Forest council for failing to obtain one of its controversial...