Housing: Warwick clamps down on licensing of HIMOs
Warwick District Council is clamping down on landlords who fail to manage and licence their properties or comply with licence conditions.
Warwick District Council is clamping down on landlords who fail to manage and licence their properties or comply with licence conditions.
Tougher powers are needed by councils to tackle rogue landlords forcing tenants to live in ‘hell-hole homes’.
An international service company has admitted breaches of safety regulations at an unlicensed property it operated.
A callous letting agent who waged a war of intimidation against a family living in a Newham property he managed, has been given a suspended prison sentence and told to complete 120 hours of community service.
A landlord has been prosecuted for attempting to illegally evict a young mother and her nine week old baby.
Two landlords have been prosecuted after Oxford City Council officers found that the property they were letting out was an unlicensed HMO (House in Multiple Occupation).