Council slammed for holding landlords responsible for tenants’ fly-tipping

Reply to the comment left by Saul Smart at 24/04/2025 – 14:47
I’ve never had to do it, although I have had to clear up rubbish after tenants, including unsorted rubbish that the council would not collect, and rubbish strewn all over neighbour’s gardens.

So what kind of evidence would you need the council to provide you with in order to ensure an easy eviction?

Here we go again, some jumped up council “worker” has no idea how the real world works…just like this commie government we have now.
I have two of my properties in sefton, not under licencing though, if this ever happened to me I would take Harvey on and shaft him sideways in court.
A jumped up comment like this, “Cllr Peter Harvey, Sefton Council’s Cabinet Member for Cleansing and Street Scene, warns they will come after landlords who are not meeting these requirements.”
Let’s just see if the social housing in Sefton gets the same treatment….bet they have no gas safety or electrical safety certs in their council property…….

Interesting how Councils now want to make LLs responsible for tenants’ waste etc., but not to pay benefit claimants’ rent to LLs direct – as tenants need to take responsibility for their money themselves – irrespective whether they pass it on to LLs. Double standards anyone? And they wonder why LLs are leaving the sector…

This makes absolute sense if the Councillors are directly responsible for all other crimes in the borough to the extent they should be placed in prison as a result.

Councils will just implement Selective Licensing, such is their contempt for private landlords.

I had £600 fine from stoke on Trent council for an unopened parcel that was addressed to a student at my student house – that was found in a back alley
The fine was reminded because the student tenant had reported it missing to the agent prior to the date of the fine – it had been stolen from the front of the house.
Without that email evidence I apparently would have had to pay the fine.
On top of this unfairness, just doing my accounts and im struggling – I’m highly geared because I started portfolio 25 years ago with just enough money to buy my home – a 2 bed grotty terrace in one of the worst areas of stoke. So everything was mortgaged to the hilt. I still live in stoke on Trent where I look after my houses and tenants who have in the main been with me for 5-12 plus years. Section 24 has killed me – I’m selling as tenants chose to move – no one wants to leave me unless it’s to another of my houses.
I have to get money out by selling so I can keep afloat.
The threat of more ridiculous fines is tipping me over the edge – i have no pension – this was it!
I’m disabled always have been – I could have had a council house and been on benefits my whole life – but I have a different mentality – I’ve worked hard and contributed to our economy.
I’ve cried at the thought of having to evict my long term tenants – what the hell do the government and council want me to do?
I’m so tempted to blanket evict with section 21 and walk away 😭 Leaving over a dozen families homeless.
I genuinely think what they are doing boarders on criminal.

Reply to the comment left by M H at 26/04/2025 – 10:42
I had a letter from Newham Council a few years ago saying that they gave me one week to clean up the garden of a house in Stratford.
The funny thing was that the garden in my house was in a very good state except my builder had left 2 small bags of leaves in the corner of the garden.
I also had two young surveyors living there who looked after everything very well.
I thought there must have been a mistake because the gardens either side of the house were a mess.
On one side there was an elderly gentleman who threw his vegetables, potato peelings and other things into the garden and they were at various stages of decay and the other side was a tenant who had a sideline in selling 2nd hand furniture so I thought there must have been a mistake.
I phoned the council who did not believe me and when I asked what evidence they had they could not give me their evidence either.
Councils should be more responsible for their actions!

I’ve had a battle with a very wealthy “person/ Co” who built a 50+ room HMO but turns out to be single flats. They have blocked my access for years – they recently put a 1 tonne bag of sand, they’ve put barriers, fences, notes on cars and scared off a tenant and left me with a long void. Council still not sorted it after years of complaints. my tenants have identified who’s bins are on our properties .. mustering the courage to start a new complaint.. but sold all mine last fab HMO still to be sold. I’m just done.

So if a tenant parks on a yellow line, pops a speed camera, or robs a bank the landlord is responsible?