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.
