After numerous stories of councils and letting agencies at each others’ throats over To Let boards, Trading Standards and other controversies,...
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A council is set to renew its war on To Let boards. In summer 2018, Leciester council brought into effect a new...
16 March 2023
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A business news website is reporting that an agency has been ordered to pay £1,550 for displaying a board illegally. Charles Lear...
16 March 2022
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The letting market experienced a traditional seasonal decline in August, according to the latest analysis from Agency Express. Its Property Activity Index...
18 September 2020
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A lettings agency has voluntarily decided to scrap To Let boards in densely populated areas, because they are unsightly and in...
07 November 2019
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Another council has been given the go ahead to ban To Let boards in part of a city - with government...
23 January 2019
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A city council has introduced highly specific guidelines as to the number, size and positioning of To Let boards following apparent...
22 October 2018
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Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...
20 July 2018
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Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...
12 June 2018
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There was a decline in both the number of To Let and Let By properties during April, according to the latest...
21 May 2018
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The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...
15 February 2018
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The city council in Nottingham claims it has taken action against no fewer than 561 unauthorised To Let boards under powers...
14 February 2018
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Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...
03 October 2017
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Letting and estate agencies in Brighton and Hove have agreed to voluntary restrictions on the erection of To Let and For...
21 June 2017
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A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...
20 June 2017
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The controversial landlord who made provocative remarks about some tenants leaving ‘curry smells’ in his properties is now complaining to the...
04 April 2017
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Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards. The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...
28 February 2017
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Four letting agencies and a number of local councillors in York appear to have reached a voluntary agreement to reduce the...
17 January 2017
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A consultation on whether to introduce stronger rules to control the number of 'to let' boards in Durham has just started. The...
10 January 2017
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Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...
22 November 2016
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Earlier this month we reported on Belfast council’s decision to open a public consultation on whether To Let boards should be...
16 November 2016
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Another local authority is considering a ban to reduce the impact - or possibly ban outright - agents' To Let boards. Residents...
07 November 2016
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The government is considering a ban on the display of To Let boards in parts of Leicester following a council bid...
21 October 2016
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Letting agents and landlords are being reminded to comply with an obligation to remove ‘to let’ signs in certain parts of...
06 October 2016
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29 July 2016
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A Loughborough lettings agency has been accused of “obscene” advertising because of the wording used on To Let boards. Councillor Ted Parton...
28 January 2016
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A bid to force letting agents to remove To Let boards from properties in areas of a city with high numbers...
03 November 2015
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Hundreds of To Let boards have been taken down in a suburb of south Liverpool as a result of a voluntary...
23 July 2015
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Letting agents in two areas of Cardiff with large proportions of privately rented property will have to apply for consent to...