Time to challenge Leeds selective licensing rules through a Judicial Review?

Time to challenge Leeds selective licensing rules through a Judicial Review?

0:01 AM, 13th January 2026, About 4 weeks ago 1

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We are the Leeds Landlord Lobby Group, currently organising a Judicial Review into recent regulatory decisions affecting the private rented sector in Leeds concerning selective licensing, which we believe are unlawful, disproportionate, and damaging.

This issue does not affect landlords alone. It directly impacts estate agents, increasing compliance burdens, operational and legal risk, and exposure to significant financial penalties, including for technical or administrative errors. These risks are already influencing landlord behaviour, reducing supply, and increasing pressure on agents and tenants alike.

To challenge this, we have launched a GoFundMe campaign to fund the legal costs of the Judicial Review. You can see by clicking here. 

Further background and context can be found here:

Leeds Landlord Lobby Group:
https://leedslandlordlobbygroup.org/

Landlords Judicial Review:
https://landlordsjudicialreview.org/

This challenge is not about avoiding regulation. It is about securing fair, lawful, and workable regulation that protects tenants without unfairly penalising those operating responsibly within the sector.

Any support would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Martin


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12:26 PM, 13th January 2026, About 4 weeks ago

TBF.
The system is geared to increase the squeeze until the lemon has bern crushed, from anything that produces a few quid, such are our finances I the UK.
We are all going to have to register on up to 3 ‘compliance sites’.
When everyone not in this for the long term (jury out here) has bailed the governmental- ‘we never wanted/expected/modelled this to happen’ Brigade will go into overdrive.
Then and only then will change start.

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