Housing: ASBO used to close problem HIMO

Housing: ASBO used to close problem HIMO

A closure order has been served on a house in Salford after residents terrorised the local community. Salford City Council applied for the three month premises closure order on the address on Duncan Street, Salford, supported by Greater Manchester Police.

Housing: Salford fined £10,000 for illegal landlord

Housing: Salford fined £10,000 for illegal landlord

A Salford landlord who failed to licence 20 flats has been fined £10,000. Jamsheed Kamali, 55, of Wilmslow Road, Mottram St Andrew, pleaded guilty to 20 offences of operating flats in Wellington Street West, Broughton, without a landlord licence when he appeared at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester on Friday 21 September.

Housing: Rogue Leeds landlord to pay £36,000 to student victims

Housing: Rogue Leeds landlord to pay £36,000 to student victims

In December 2009, Tariq Zaman was prosecuted by the Leeds City Council’s HMO (Houses in Multiple Occupation) Licensing Team for operating four licensable HMOs without a licence. Fines in excess of £10,000 were imposed for these offences. Subsequently his ‘fit and proper person’ status was removed and his HMO licences revoked.