New Law Renders Local Licensing Schemes Redundant

Local councils are being urged to drop landlord licensing schemes following the publication of new laws showing that they are not needed. Measures in the government’s new Housing and Planning Bill make clear that local authorities can use council tax registration forms to ask tenants for details of a properties’ tenure and its landlord to help root out criminal landlords.  The Residential Landlords Association is now calling on councils to drop licensing schemes given that the Bill makes clear that they can collect the information they need without levying expensive costs on landlords which inevitably get passed on to tenants in higher rents. Read more on the Letting Agent Today website.