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Landlord Licensing & Defence is a company set up to assist Landlords to avoid prosecution and fines by becoming fully compliant with the Law and the Regulations.
Landlord Licencing & Defence also helps landlords get out of trouble when they get into it. We are fighting against councils that have become power-crazed and which are persecuting decent landlords for immoral financial gain.
Councils have become ruthless and unforgiving and will destroy a Landlord, his/her health and business in just a single inspection.
Everyone makes mistakes, Landlord Licensing & Defence reduces the chances of an incident breaking you, psychologically, financially and physically. There are some vicious people within councils near to your portfolio enforcing the Housing Act 2004 Parts 1, 2, 3 and 7 with angst.
Some landlords just don’t give a damn and break all the rules – they deserve the punishment. Decent landlords do not.
Landlord Licensing & Defence fights a Landlord’s corner like no other. We cut to the chase and gets things sorted.
We understand, because we are landlords ourselves.
Landlord Licensing & Defence regularly assists owners and Landlords who have just discovered the hard way (when a massive Civil Penalty Fine notice from the Council lands on their desk) that they have not been complying with the law and regulations.
We take charge of the situation, negotiate with the appropriate Council on the basis that the owner/landlord has now taken professional advice and then manage an immediate operation to make the property fully compliant with legislation, install systems and processes (to ensure it can stay that way). We also deal with the increasing move by Councils to declare decent landlords ‘Not Fit and Proper’ to manage properties.
Part of that role is educating Property Investors and Landlords who think they have done the right thing in handing their property over to Letting Agents to manage on their behalf. Unfortunately, in the increasingly complex arena of property legislation and regulation (little of which could be described as ‘joined-up’), many letting agents are sub-standard: Unaware of the requirements. Equally, the investors/owners hiring their services have no understanding that they too need to understand the legislation and ‘control’ their Letting Agents.
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Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 12/02/2026 - 10:09Although this is for once a brilliant idea especially as thanks to RRA they will have to take the tenants as well. ...Your comment "I thought they already had...
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At Landlords Licensing & Defence we already see scenarios like @Mark Alexander has described with one tenant complaint leading to fines at one property, a check on companies house and elsewhere to identify all the charges (ie all the landlords...
Read More →10th November 2025, 5 months ago
£60 property licences are alive and well In Jersey they have a licensing scheme for all rental properties Each residential unit of accommodation that is rented out needs to be licensed, the cost of which is currently £60 and is...
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Silly councillor They are public and have been for years Scotland https://housingandpropertychamber.scot/previous-tribunal-decisions England https://www.gov.uk/residential-property-tribunal-decisions
Read More →30th October 2025, 6 months ago
Pe385 https://www.property118.com/member/?id=18745 What / where is the evidence it is an HMO?
Read More →30th October 2025, 6 months ago
Rachel Reeves has committed a strict liability crime under section 95 of the Housing Act 2004 (failure to licence a property) with unlimited fines if prosecuted in court. Alternatively councils can issue a civil financial penalty up to £30,000 (and...
Read More →22nd September 2025, 7 months ago
If it was converted in 1988 ot is not going to have complied with 1991 building regs which were not published until 3+ years later Therefore it is section 257 HMO if 2 or more out of the 3 units...
Read More →29th August 2025, 8 months ago
There is nothing in legislation requiring that bedroom to be limited to an under 10 unless it is a licensable HMO However the minute you accept (or fail to represent against) a licence with conditions that the council has plucked...
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Reply to the comment left by northern landlord at 03/07/2025 - 11:32I hope you don’t mind but we may have to steal this “ Trouble is most Councils couldn’t run a bath let alone a building project.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Read More →30th May 2025, 11 months ago
This is not really new news. Councils have been doing this for years They send people out counting dustbins, asking neighbours, and they've been using AI for years to analyse their various databased such as noise complaints, ASB complaints, council...
Read More →30th May 2025, 11 months ago
The duplicity of Local Authorities knows no bounds. These same councils who fine private sector landlords to within an inch of bankruptcy at the slightest opportunity are themselves the worst landlords in the known universe. Unlike landlords who would get...
Read More →21st May 2025, 11 months ago
This could be a brilliant start to a rogue tenant database as Landlords must insist it has to log the names of the tenants and the reason they were evicted!
Read More →14th April 2025, 1 year ago
The Local Housing Authority is the enforcer, the housing police. In the same way that you wouldn’t go to the police because you’re worried about the knife you have with blood dripping off it to ask how to dispose of...
Read More →14th April 2025, 1 year ago
Contact your insurance broker urgently and get them to find an insurance that covers the actual situation When they say you are not covered you can be certain you are not covered
Read More →10th December 2024, 1 year ago
@Leslie Before you get yourself into untold trouble with the council please read this https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/damp-and-mould-understanding-and-addressing-the-health-risks-for-rented-housing-providers/understanding-and-addressing-the-health-risks-of-damp-and-mould-in-the-home--2 There you will see the damp is now THE LANDLORDS PROBLEM in all cases. If you need help to deal with the council without further...
Read More →28th November 2024, 1 year ago
The local authority correctly quotes the guidance from British Standard BS5839-6:2019+A1:2020 The reason for this guidance is the safety of life and limb of your tenants. Failure rates of battery alarms are 30% or thereabouts from Government statistics and they...
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He "HOPES" to START building by 2030 By my calculation that's not for another FIVE to SIX YEARS before he even STARTS That's going to help then Mr Khan. Not! Maybe he can't get developments through his own deranged planning...
Read More →26th November 2024, 1 year ago
Errrr…. What about the thousands of landlords who are fined every week by councils using Civil Financial Penalties as an alternative to prosecution because it’s quicker, cheaper, and the council gets to keep all the fine money! (Unlike court where...
Read More →14th November 2024, 1 year ago
Well said @Mick Roberts. Absolutely loved your “brickie” illustration. Of course as well as the punitive s24 tax there‘s also the slight matter of government both national and local totally failing to build social housing over the last 30+ years...
Read More →29th August 2024, 2 years ago
Hello Mark Please understand that 3 persons from 2 households absolutely is an HMO and has been so defined since the Housing Act 2004 You don’t say which London Borough this is but most of them have “Additional Licensing” for...
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