by peter littlewood | Apr 20, 2023 | Licensing
A Reading landlord appealed against a penalty notice issued by the local council’s private sector housing team in July 2022, after he committed an offence under the Housing Act 2004 of having an unlicensed HMO at his property in the town. The council’s penalty notice...
by peter littlewood | Apr 19, 2023 | Industry News
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has claimed that billions of pounds in rent, including more than a billion pounds from housing benefit, is ending up in the pockets of private landlords who are letting dangerous, cold or dilapidated homes across England, calling it a...
by peter littlewood | Apr 19, 2023 | Industry News
Social housing tenants in seven cities are to be offered a place on a Government-funded training scheme aimed at helping them hold their landlords to account. Launched today, the £500,000-backed Four Million Homes programme will offer free advice on addressing damp...
by peter littlewood | Apr 18, 2023 | Industry News
Bright Blue, the independent think tank for liberal conservatism, and Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, have published an essay collection, Home advantage: a new centre-right vision for housing, with 16 contributions from top MPs and thought leaders –...
by peter littlewood | Apr 18, 2023 | Tax & Other Financial
The government revealed it has not tried to calculate how many people cannot pay their rent because of the freeze on housing benefit rates. The admission has been made by the Work and Pensions Minister, Mims Davies, in response to the parliamentary question ‘To...
