Comments on: Oxford City Council to extend HMO licensing scheme http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2007/10/18/oxford-city-council-to-extend-hmo-licensing-scheme/ From landlord and tenant solicitor Tessa Shepperson Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nearly Legal http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2007/10/18/oxford-city-council-to-extend-hmo-licensing-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Nearly Legal Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:03:00 +0000 http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/?p=140#comment-85 Very interesting. My experience is that major Local Authorities are unable to effectively deal with HMO licensing as it stands. Certainly it has produced little substantive change - landlords don't register, tenants have no idea, the LA's simply don't know they exist.<br/><br/>Oxford's plans strike me as a good thing and I applaud their ambition. But one does wonder how far they will be able to enforce the extension. Very interesting. My experience is that major Local Authorities are unable to effectively deal with HMO licensing as it stands. Certainly it has produced little substantive change – landlords don’t register, tenants have no idea, the LA’s simply don’t know they exist.

Oxford’s plans strike me as a good thing and I applaud their ambition. But one does wonder how far they will be able to enforce the extension.

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