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A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...
25 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...
04 October 2021
From: Breaking News
A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...
16 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The government has given the green light to a council’s huge licensing scheme, set to cover 18 of its 20 wards...
17 February 2020
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More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News
A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...
05 September 2018
From: Breaking News
A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...
11 July 2018
From: Breaking News
A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...
25 September 2017
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to pay a £12,000 fine as well as over £12,000 in court costs, after...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...