Easier landlord licensing schemes ‘Makes no sense’

Who is going to House the tenants who are going to made homeless . Being a private Landlord is quickly becoming an untenable situation.

Reply to the comment left by Northernpleb at 17/12/2024 – 11:01
Becoming? I think you should have used the present tense.

Selective Licensing is often no more than an unjust stealth tax on private tenants.

If only we had a national body that represented private landlords and/or private tenants.

Selective Licensing will add £30 per month to rents. This will be insignificant in expensive areas but seriously hurts those in cheaper ares of the country. It would represent 6% of my average rents.

“A failure to do so risks them becoming nothing more than cash cows.” There’s no risk involved it’s the whole point of it.

One of the main reasons for having selective licensing is to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB). Councils expect landlords to take action to deal with tenants who are anti-social.
When s21 evictions are abolished, landlords will find it all but impossible to deal with ASB. We can write a stiff letter to the tenant. We can inform them who has complained (we may need the victim’s consent or else fall foul of GDPR). We can ask the victim if he or she is willing to give evidence, after a wait of many months for a court date. Fat chance! What we cannot do is give the victim (or the Council) any assurance that we will be able to evict the tenant.

It is then obvious that ASB behaviours can no longer be kept in check with a section 21 so PRS ASBs will skyrocket which in turn will allow council to fulfil the data set on ASB as part of selective licencing then – hey presto -it becomes a borough-wide selective licencing scheme within a few years of RRB coming into force. So what will be the point of the LL PRS database except it will be much cheaper than the £1000+ licence fee given to councils for the licencing schemes on what are low risk properties vs the big 5+ bed plus HMOs it all started as only a few years ago during Prescott’s time/legacy

By removing the requirement to obtain permission from the Secretary Of State it’s clear that the Government’s agenda is to increase the number of areas subject to selective licensing. And why wouldn’t they ? We’re just low hanging fruit ripe for picking. Just when you think the PRS can’t get any worse………..it does !!
I fully expect to see selective licensing all across the country although it won’t be selective it will be every council ward. They’ve got to get the money for the illegal migrants, CO2 capture and Ukraine from somewhere.

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 17/12/2024 – 15:15
In my area, it’s the Social Housing tenants that deal drugs and sell dodgy fags to kids.

Why doesn’t the Selective Licensing scam bill them too?

Reply to the comment left by Dylan Morris at 17/12/2024 – 17:20

I remember when the Blair government were making the case for selective licensing listening to government officials and the then leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council telling us that “landlords had nothing to fear” it would be a very light touch legislation and only intrdouced in a few really bad anti-social areas.
Never trust a politician!

Won’t affect me I’ll just increase the rent to cover the costings and make my tenants very aware that this is the sole reason for the increase.
I’ll remind them unfortunately each and every time the government meddles with landlords rents go up.