Tag: Nottingham City Council

Tenants will pay the price for council’s entry threats warns landlord

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th December 2025, 5 months ago | 32

A landlord is warning that councils gaining more powers for implementing forced intended entry to a rented property will ultimately...

Council’s selective licensing team says landlords CAN break the rules

Author: Mick Roberts

10th September 2025, 8 months ago | 7

Yes, you read the headline right, they really did. Basically, if another department of Nottingham City Council is breaking the...

Landlord claims selective licensing will force evictions of long-term tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th August 2025, 9 months ago | 24

A Nottingham landlord says “the council’s hands are tied by homeless-inducing rules” because selective licensing fails to protect tenants. Mick...

Landlord blames selective licensing for rising council housing waiting lists

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st July 2025, 9 months ago | 4

A Nottingham landlord has blamed selective licensing for the city’s long council housing waiting lists. More than 400 people apply...

Nottingham City Council faces funding questions ahead of Awaab’s law deadline

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th June 2025, 10 months ago | 5

Nottingham City Council claims it has spent more than £2.4 million on damp and mould repairs to its social homes,...

Council plans to curb use of letting boards

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th May 2025, 12 months ago | 3

A council is set to revive limitations on letting boards across several residential areas after complaints from residents. Nottingham City...

Nottingham City Council wants to strip landlords of licences, yet their own houses are shocking

Author: Mick Roberts

29th January 2025, 1 year ago | 38

The story about Nottingham’s council social houses being a ‘house of horrors’, shows yet again Nottingham City Council’s failure with...

‘Rogue councils’ slammed for their ‘serious failings’ in housing management

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st January 2025, 1 year ago | 1

A leading landlord law expert has condemned two ‘rogue councils’ after the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) issued scathing reports...

Council households stuck in damp and mould backlog as one landlord calls out double standard

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th November 2024, 1 year ago | 1

Despite Nottingham City Council spending £1.2 million to address damp and mould issues in its properties, council tenants are still...

Nottingham City Council ordered to refund Landlord after Tribunal rules against council

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd October 2024, 2 years ago | 15

A council has been forced to refund more than £2,800 to a landlord after a Tribunal ruled in his favour....

Council prepares for overdue social housing survey despite harsh penalties for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th August 2024, 2 years ago | 4

Despite punishing landlords with hefty fines for selective licensing rules and failing to inspect private rented sector properties, one council...

Council unveils its first housing check in EIGHT years – despite demanding private landlords do them every four months

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th April 2024, 2 years ago | 10

Despite hammering landlords with punitive fines for minor transgressions of selective licensing rules, one council has admitted that its own...

Council threatens hefty fines as landlords struggle with faulty licensing system

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th February 2024, 2 years ago | 14

Nottingham City Council has produced a video to help landlords learn how to complete its selective licensing application process –...

Landlord fears ‘prison sentence’ over council’s selective licensing application process

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2024, 2 years ago | 25

One landlord says applying for a selective licence with his council’s online system is a ‘complete waste of money’ which...

Extending lease on a flat with Nottingham City Council?

Author: Readers Question

10th March 2023, 3 years ago | 5

Hello, I’ve been reading a thread from August 2021 about experiences of extending leases. The information from Mick Roberts was very...