Landlord and Tenant

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Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to include lodger landlords in the national database of rogue landlords and property agents.


Answered by
Heather Wheeler Portrait
Heather Wheeler
This question was answered on 29th May 2018

The Government has recently strengthened the ability of local authorities to take action where landlords are failing to meet their obligations. This includes launching a national database of rogue landlords and property agents on 1 April 2018. A local housing authority must enter a landlord onto the database if they are subject to a banning order. They also have the discretion to enter a landlord onto the database if they have been convicted of a banning order offence or have received two or more civil penalties for banning order offences in a 12 month period. This could include resident landlords if they have been convicted of an offence under schedule 1 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016.

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