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A property built without planning consent and then illegally let to a family has been knocked down by Ealing council in...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

A landlord has been fined £7,000 for letting two properties which were unfit for habitation. Shahzad Mehmood was prosecuted at Swindon Magistrates'...

A millionaire landlord who built an illegal outbuilding at his home has been forced to demolish it after pressure from his...

A raid on a house has uncovered appalling conditions including a Slumdog Millionaire-style shanty town shack made from wood offcuts, pallets...

An unauthorised outhouse with a concealed entrance constructed at the back of a residential property in west London - one of...

The BBC’s One Show has shown an immigration raid on a property, of the kind that may become more common once...

New funding will help up to 65 councils tackle rogue landlords who let out substandard homes including the hated Beds In...

Two unauthorised outbuildings occupied by five adults and a child have been demolished by a London council after a landlord failed...

Enforcement officers have swooped on three addresses in east London in the latest bid to clampdown on rogue landlords and so-called...