The Government recently published their response to the Rugg Review, which was reported by me here. In particular the report proposed mandatory licensing for landlords and regulation for all letting agents. The report is also a consultation. As before with important consultations, I have prepared an online answerform to allow people to give their views…
The government published a consultation paper yesterday in response to the recent Rugg Report and the other various reports that have been published over the past few years. Supporters of the Law Commissions long project and reports, will be pleased to see that this is acknowledged and referred to in the response which confirms that…
After my earlier post giving details of an e-petition against the governments licensing plans, I have now learned of another one here requesting Local Housing Allowance be paid direct to landlords. Petitions seem to be taking off – it is a shame therefore that the government is no longer supporting them, according to this report…
The National Landlords Association (NLA) has recently started a campaign to change the rules for the payment of housing benefit/local housing allowance (LHA). As has been described elsewhere in this blog, LHA cannot normally be paid direct to the landlord in the way that housing benefit was. The NLA consider that this is unfair, particularly…
I have been informed that an e petition to No 10 has now been posted by Mark Horne of Property Hawk. The reasons on the petition are Mandatory licensing would: 1. Undermine the private property rights of a citizen to do what they choose with their property including letting it to a willing tenant. 2….
The Times in an article today has listed six ‘fast facts’ on the new licensing plans which are expected to be announced formally in a new Green Paper shortly. They are as follows: A new licence-to-let which is expected to cost landlords £50 An independent body which will mediate in disputes between landlords and tenants…
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Landlord licensing and agent regulation – impact assessments now published
Those interested in the governments consultation paper issued in response to the Rugg Report, will also be interested in the impact assessments which have now been published by the Department for Communities ands Local Government . Impact assessment for regulation of Landlords This is available to download from here. This shows that there are two…