The English Housing Survey Household Report 2010-11 and English Housing Survey Homes Report 2010 have been published by Communities & Local Government. The key findings and reports are available below.
Last year I wrote for Guardian Society about the reservations I had over Shelter’s rogue landlord campaign, which makes the argument that the number of landlords prosecuted by local authorities is low compared to the amount of complaints about bad housing that those councils received (By Ben Reeve-Lewis).
Brent Council is drawing up plans to crackdown on ‘beds in sheds’ – outbuildings in residential gardens rented out in contravention of planning rules.
A pair of unscrupulous landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs of almost £9000 after Camden Council successfully prosecuted them for failing to license overcrowded student digs.
Camden Council has successfully prosecuted a landlord for failing to license a property she had divided into separate dwellings without installing safe fire exits and fire alarms.
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has warned that the sector faces “gross regulatory overload” that serves only to drive up rents at a time when tenants can least afford it.
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