Council launches consultation with tenants on landlord fines

I doubt they will explain to tenants the effect of ridiculous fines, perhaps offering support to buy tents?

The Green’s have already adopted a policy to abolish private landlords through legislation and financial penalties – it was announced at their last Conference.

Looks like it’s not working in Bristol if there is supposedly no increase in homelessness. . .

He said the council has not yet seen landlords exiting the market or a spike in homelessness linked to the abolition of Section 21.

1. Because they are not looking.
2. Because they don’t care.
3. S21 not abolished yet – look again at the numbers of claims hitting court in July (after the end of April rush)

If you’re not worried about this, you’re not paying attention. Many councils have already abused the selective licensing powers they were given to raise revenue.

This is simply another government workaround to channel money to underfunded councils via landlords. Handing them a civil (rather than criminal – so far less accountability) means of raising lots of extra cash will be abused.

Are Bristol and the same Council which is currently evicting hundreds of people living in Motorhomes, caravans and even tents in an area of Bristol !
Some of the most expensive Rents outside London with a chronic shortage of affordable Social and Private Rentals in the whole city.
This is really going to help

The way things are going, i expect the tennants to vote for the death penalty in every case, soon. Some landlords faced with outrageous fines of £40,000+ may even take their own lives, and I can already hear the likes of GenRant and the Neoliberals and Marxist/commies cheering to the rafters.
Whatever happened to the British sense of fare play and Justice? Oh! I see, the UK is not British anymore. Its now becoming a 3rd world society, with all sorts of 3rd world problems imported and adopted as the norm. Heads will roll, quite literally.
Still the wisdom of the ages is this, “what goes around, comes around”.
So be careful what you wish for. You may not have thought it through, and will no doubt suffer the eventual consequences.
I’m selling up. Two going and one left. One is already with the solicitors. The tennants want to buy, so all good. I’ll never come back to the PRS and become a landlord again. Just too much hate and far to risky an investment. I saw what it was like in the 1970’s and its going back to that time again.
Nothing to rent. Trapped landlords unable to sell, unable to evict, rent caps and misery. Lots and lots of misery. I couldn’t move to find a good well paid job. There was nowhere to live, unable to move. Living in a tiny bedsit on scraps and boiled rice and onions. Barely able to survive on the dole level wages. That went on for decades, until i was able to move to London and rent somewhere, with a reasonably well paid job.
Mobility for the youngsters fresh out of University, is essential to be able to move to where the jobs are, if or when you find a well paid job.
As I remember it, the ones that did well, worked for their dad’s business (nepotism). Everyone else struggled. It was tough, very tough. I would not like to go back to those days again.
Now where can I move to where they treat me best?

Reply to the comment left by DAMIEN RAFFERTY at 23/02/2026 – 10:57
Hard to believe there are enough stupid people in this country to elect the Greens!!

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Incompetent council if they have to ask renters, They are all turning against landlords and one day it will hit them so hard they wouldn’t know what hit them.

All the comments are spot on. Very odd to think why a council should or needs to consult with tenants on fines. Or perhaps the CEO at Bristol was watching a Tale of two Cities.Will they be inviting all those who they made homeless or didn’t respond to when they complained in the past or is their record spotless! Would be nice to think tenants will see the outcome and say no fines.
The fines being suggested are out of all proportion and will just drive more landlords out.Just another tax raising exercise .