Another interesting post by our regular guest blogger, Ben Reeve-Lewis.
Margaret Thatcher and the right to buy
Some of you may be able to remember when Margaret Thatcher’s government introduced the right to buy scheme back in the 1980s, a mandatory scheme forcing social landlords to sell properties to their tenants at a massive discount.
It turned the [...]
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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 [...]
Con/LibDem proposals for Housing law reform – not
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 [...]
Homelessness and Allocations, 8th Edition by Andrew Arden QC, Emily Orme and Toby Vanhagen
I am pleased to introduce a review of this classic book from LAG, from Giles Peaker of Anthony Gold.
Homelessness and Allocations. 8th Edition
This may not be a book of much use to private landlords, although a glance between its covers would rapidly disabuse some of their conviction that ‘the Council’ will automatically help tenants that [...]
New HMO planning categories now in force
New rules for HMO properties
As announced earlier this year (and reported by me here) the government has now changed the planning rules to require all HMO properties to get planning permission. These new rules came into force yesterday (6 April 2010). This brings the definition of HMO for the purposes of planning into line with [...]
Notorious Norwich landlord may go to jail after tenant suffers 80% burns
Those of us living in Norwich who work in property, all know about Mr Mike Billings. He is one of the biggest landlords in Norwich, letting mainly to the lower end of the market, with properties of variable standards of repair and safety.
I once lived in a Billings flat myself, when I first came to [...]
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Oxford leads the way with HMO licensing
HMO Licensing in Oxford
Oxford City Council looks to be the first local authority to introduce blanket licensing for HMOs in its area, under new powers granted in April. The new scheme will apply to every HMO in the city (apart from a few self contained flats) and will come into force on 25 October.
Oxford, a [...]
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