The Housing And Planning Bill- Creating A Legal Loophole For Rogue Landlords?

Much of the focus of the Housing and Planning Bill is on the right to buy extension and the forced sale of councils’ most expensive properties.  But this is a Bill of two halves, and the other focuses on measures to tackle rogue landlords and poor conditions in the private rented sector.

These include:

·         Allowing local authorities to ban the very worst landlords and letting agents;

·         Creating a database of rogue landlords and letting agents for local authorities to access;

·         Allowing local authorities to access data on landlords from the tenancy deposit schemes to help enforce against poor conditions; and

·         Giving tenants who are illegally evicted, harassed by their landlord or forced to live in poor conditions the ability to reclaim rent paid to their landlord.

Read more on the Crisis blog.