
Housing: Landlord fined again on worst offending street in Leeds
A landlord has been prosecuted for the second time after putting tenant’s lives in danger from possible carbon monoxide poisoning after a boiler was moved and wrongly positioned.
A landlord has been prosecuted for the second time after putting tenant’s lives in danger from possible carbon monoxide poisoning after a boiler was moved and wrongly positioned.
A shed with bed – belonging to a slumlord hit with a record £27,700 in fines, costs and confiscation orders for illegal properties – has been razed.
The owner of a Sandwell estate of eight blocks of flats has been hit with a massive £45,900 penalty by magistrates for failing to carry out repairs.
Newham’s Mayor told a Commons select committee that voluntary accreditation of private landlords does not work.
The Oxford Mail has reported that Oxford City Council enabled a slum landlord to be given a lighter sentence because it failed to inform magistrates he had previous convictions.
A rogue landlord who illegally rented out rooms in unlicensed multiple occupied houses (HMOs) must pay back the housing benefit received for the flats.