{"id":100474,"date":"2018-10-24T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/53-councils-have-not-prosecuted-a-single-landlord-in-three-years\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:04:36","slug":"53-councils-have-not-prosecuted-a-single-landlord-in-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/53-councils-have-not-prosecuted-a-single-landlord-in-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"53 councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in three years"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLarge parts of England and Wales with many \u2018non-decent\u2019 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 \u201cnon-decent\u201d, 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Large parts of England and Wales with many \u2018non-decent\u2019 homes have had no convictionsMore than...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-q8y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":165168,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-rogue-landlords-past-failures-do-not-augur-well-for-the-new-era-editorial-of-renters-rights\/","url_meta":{"origin":100474,"position":0},"title":"The Guardian view on rogue landlords: past failures do not augur well for the new era | Editorial of renters\u2019 rights","date":"November 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r If the promise of a better private rental sector is to be realised, councils will need new staff as well as stricter rulesTenants need rights. 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