An official task force to tackle rogue landlords set up
with great fanfare two years ago has not met once – and there is no plan for it
to do so, ministers have admitted. The CLG announced plans for an expanded
cross-government team to help councils deal with problem landlords in 2013. It
was, they said, designed to build on the work of a previous task force that had
been established to tackle so-called “beds in sheds” rentals – where
unscrupulous landlords were found to be illegally renting out outbuildings to
migrant workers. But Housing Minister Brandon Lewis has admitted that the new
task force has not had a single meeting. Mr Lewis also admitted that its
predecessor group had only met three times since it was established by the now
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps in 2012. Read more on the Independent
website.
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