Feb

Landlord fined and told he has ‘no excuse’ for not licensing houses

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Nottingham city council took Sakiib Khan to court over unlicensed properties and he has now been fined £12,000 by magistrates.

A Nottingham landlord
has been fined more than £12,000 for failing to licence his three properties in
the city.

Sakiib Khan, 34, of The
Meadows, admitted the offences under the council’s selective licensing scheme,
which has been running in Nottingham since 2018.

Nottingham Magistrates
Court ordered Khan to pay a fine and legal costs totalling £12,141 for the
unlicensed properties in Woolmer Road, Lamcote Street and Glapton Road, which
bring in total rental income amounts of about £2,080 per month.

Councillor Linda
Woodings, portfolio holder for Planning, Housing and Heritage, says: “The
Selective Licencing scheme has been active in the city for 18 months now, so
there really is no excuse for not licensing properties.

“I
hope this puts out a message to other property agents, companies and landlords
that if they don’t work with us to licence their properties, then they could
face prosecution.”

Nottingham’s scheme, which covers 90% of homes in the
private rental sector, costs landlords £780 for each five-year licence and
aims to raise standards.

In its first year, the
council received nearly 17,000 applications, issued 22 civil penalty notices
and bought five prosecutions.

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