Property News · October 24, 2018

53 councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in three years


Large parts of England and Wales with many ‘non-decent’ homes have had no convictionsMore than one in seven councils in England and Wales have failed to prosecute a single bad landlord over the past three years, despite some having very high numbers of homes classed as “non-decent”, the Guardian has found.Freedom of information responses show that 53 of the 349 local authorities with responsibility for the private rented sector did not convict any landlords for breaching property standards in 2015, 2016 or 2017. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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