An innovative housing programme which will see empty homes renovated and brought back into use is expected to be rolled out across Stoke-on-Trent following city council cabinet approval later this month.
SWANSEA Council has urged city landlords to maintain their properties or face action after it successfully prosecuted another rogue landlord for renting out an unsatisfactory property.
A landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence for endangering lives after a mother, her partner and her eight-year-old daughter were poisoned by carbon monoxide at a flat in Lewisham.
A new report sets out a cross-Government approach to ensuring that anyone at risk of homelessness gets help at the earliest possible stage to prevent them from losing their home.
Tuition fees of up to £9,000 are a daunting prospect for any student embarking on higher education, but new research from the UK’s leading flat and house share website SpareRoom.co.uk – based on more than 300,000 rental properties – can reveal the university towns and cities with the most affordable private-sector room rents, with the price of bills included, for students looking to make savings while studying.
A city landlord who was fined for letting an unsafe house has failed in an appeal against the verdict. JL Homes Ltd of Victoria Road South, Southsea was told by magistrates last October to pay almost £12,000, after ignoring council orders to stop letting an unsafe student house.
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