Ministers have given their backing in principle to a
Private Member’s Bill to stop rogue landlords who, rather than meet their legal
duty to keep their properties at a reasonable standard and remove health and
safety hazards, instead evict tenants simply for asking for essential repairs
to be made - on the condition that the Bill only targets bad landlords and
cannot be used by tenants to frustrate legitimate evictions. Communities
Minister Stephen Williams said Sarah Teather’s Bill would help root out
spiteful landlords and ensure that hardworking tenants are not afraid to ask
for better standards in their homes. The Bill will extend the existing
restrictions on a landlord’s power to evict, where they don’t protect a deposit
or have a licence they are required to hold, to situations where a health and
safety hazard has been identified by environmental health officers. Read more
on the CLG website.
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