Housing Law Reform
Information is gradually filtering through about the current coalition governments intention for housing law reform. Basically they aren’t going to do any!
Grant Shapps said in the House of Commons yesterday :
It is important that we strike the right balance between tenants and landlords. The current legislative framework, which I have been looking [...]
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Con/LibDem proposals for Housing law reform – not
News on high rent tenancies
I have just learned via the National Landlords Association, that the government *will* be implementing the increased rent level for ASTs that was announced in their news item on 3 February.
However the surprising piece of news is that the legislation will be retrospective So all tenancies where the rent is between £25,000 and £100,000 on [...]
Housing law reform and legal aid
There have been a lot of announcements recently from the government about housing law reform, and what they intend to do in the private rented sector. Whether any of these proposals will actually come to pass is not certain. However I (along with many others) am concerned about the approach taken by this government, both [...]
Government makes new announcements on the Private Rented Sector
There has been a positive flurry of tweets and emails crossing my computer screen today, preceding and then following, the announcement from the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Dept. about their plans for the Private Rented Sector.
You can read the news item here, and the report itself can be downloaded from here.
This follows on from [...]
HMO planning law changes causes consternation among landlords
HMO landlords be warned – the government has announced that the law is to be changed from 6 April, introducing a new planning category for HMOs (the definition to be based on that set out in the Housing Act 2004):
we have decided to amend the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) order 1987 as amended [...]
Great articles in the current issue of Roof – the housing magazine from Shelter
Two years ago I did a review of Roof Magazine on my Landlord Law site, where I said how good it was. I have just finished reading the January / February 2010 issue, and have decided I need to write about it again. It really is excellent, this issue in particular. For [...]
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Unpopular HMO planning laws to change on 1 October
HMOs and planning law
As reported on this blog previously, landlords and landlords organisations were extremely unhappy at the changes which were brought in to the planning laws on 6 April this year by the last government.
Suspected to have been introduced largely because of problems in one minister’s constituency with ’studentification’, Labour’s new rules provided a [...]
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