Was Nottingham CC Selective Licensing consultation really in favour?

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Dear Landlords,

Someone has sent this the enclosed pdf through, link also below. With more legal knowledge than me you may pick up on something.  The attached document has some ‘data’ he collected for selective licensing. Looks very damning reading against the council:

Were the Nottingham City Council Selective Licensing consultation results really in favour of the scheme?

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Taxi company or sole trader?

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I am buying a detached property for slightly over the property value as it has land that had planning permission for another 3 bed detached property. I plan to either convert existing property into 3 flats and build a further 3 flats to the side

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FIVE reasons landlords should attend Future Renting

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Our Future Renting conference takes place on 13th September at Imperial College, Kensington in London. Following the huge success of Future Renting North in April this year and Future Renting Wales last November, Future Renting is your chance to join hundreds of landlords, agents and other property professionals and hear all about the key issues that […]

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BLOG: Section 21 after 1 October 2018

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The Deregulation Act will be extended on 1st October 2018. Here, RLA Policy Director David Smith explains what it will mean for landlords when it comes to Section 21 notices. As all landlords and agents should be aware the Deregulation Act 2015 made substantial changes to the operation of section 21 notices in Assured Shorthold […]

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Brentwood property investor seminar additional date 9th Oct

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All Property118 members are invited with a guest to attend (FREE OF CHARGE) a property seminar run by the Property Investor Partnership (PIP), who are official sponsors of Property118 and have worked together for over a decade. In fact, Mark Alexander

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NALS rebuke discrimination accusations

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The National Approved Lettings Scheme (NALS) have rebuked the ‘end DSS discrimination’ campaign accusations made by the National Housing Federation and Shelter.

NALS chief executive Isobel Thomson has issued a statement backing letting and managing agent’s ability to deal with prospective tenants on a case by case basis including ones in receipt of benefits.

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Shelter to challenge “No DSS� ban

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Housing Benefit Tenants:

Following a covert sampling exercise carried out jointly by Shelter and the National Housing Federation (NHF), the organisations are claiming that tenants on housing benefit (HB) are being routinely discriminated against.

Shelter researchers claim to have called 149 letting branches around the UK. They say they found that 10% of them (one in every 10 called) operated a policy of a “blanket ban� on any tenant applicants on housing benefit.

Whilst a “no DSS� ban is not technically illegal, according to the previous government department responsible for benefits, Shelter is said to be planning a legal challenge to the practice. They will argue that it breaches the 2010 Equality Act on the basis that it disproportionately affects women and disabled people. This is because, they say, these groups are more likely to be claiming these benefits.

A Shelter spokeswoman has said that the research shows there is a “the wider uphill struggle faced by housing benefit tenants�, claiming that (48%), or just short of half of all the letting agent branches called had said “they had no suitable homes or landlords willing to let to someone on housing benefit.�

By way of explanation the spokeswoman had said:

“We’re not saying that letting agents should just take anyone on, but a lot of people who are on housing benefit have a perfectly clean record, sometimes lasting 10 years or more, and nothing to suggest that they will default on the rent.�

With more and more low income and benefit claiming tenants being force to rent in the private rented sector, as social housing provision has diminished – there are just under four million households (nine million people) currently living in the social rented sector in England, with an official waiting list of 1.15 million households – not all private landlords want to rent to social tenants. See the August 2018 government Green Paper – A new deal for social housing

These landlords have a right to discriminate on affordability grounds and many take into account the fact that they wait 6 weeks or more for an initial payment from the local authority, as opposed to money up-front when letting to a private tenant.

Many UK private landlords reject housing benefit claiming tenants for the simple reason that they a less attractive to them than are private tenants paying the full rent themselves. What further compounds the issue is that many mortgage lenders automatically ban HB tenants.

NHF – Discrimination against people on housing benefit is rife, new research finds

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