Coventry Selective Licensing being rushed through?

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In Stockton, following strong representations from a large group of local landlords during the consultation process for two proposed Selective Licensing schemes, there are now ongoing discussions between them and the council on structuring an alternative.

I have been involved in two consultations.
In the first I was part of a small team that managed to assist an authority understand that there was a better way forward.
In the second ,the local authority remains determined to licence whatever the evidence shows and is presently requesting the Secretary of States approval .
In each consultation I would estimate to have spent over 40 hours a week for 8 months analysing the evidence and seeking answers to inconsistencies either through letters,e-mails, Parish Consultation or Full Council meetings .
In the first consultation I took part in I advised landlords to ensure they had as many tenants, friends,family object to the online consultation (you may find it easier to get objections in paper form) . It is pointless landlords objecting as the views are totally dismissed. It was partly because the vast majority (70% as I recall) of tenants who provided feedback and who had objected to the proposals that stopped that scheme.
Unfortunately in the second consultation there was less than 2% of tenants who responded and the authority produced data to show the majority wanted selective licensing who lived in these areas and thus avoided the wishes of the remaining tenants.
It takes a brave authority to ignore residents ,
Do you have a strong landlords association , that helps as they may raise funds for judicial review .
Petitions are quite normal also.

https://www.noselectivelicensing.co.uk/
We are a group of well over 200 landlords currently fighting Leeds city council implementing Selective Licensing. We created a website, posters, fliers, went on the radio, BBC TV, tracked down the MP's & councillors. We also attacked them on the council facebook pages. We went to all the local agents to get their support & alert all their landlords.
We went to every event they held, stood there for several hours & hounded the council.
For the online consultation we got everyone we knew to complete the forms as landlords, tenants & even local residents. They will give more weight to non landlord votes. We think around 3000 forms were completed. We used the links in our website to track the redirects.
We also produced 2 extensive reports to trash all of their claims. These were sent to Housing & the councillors on the exec board. We even visited the Scrutiny board to raise our concerns on the biased consultation forms & the false claims by the council.
From our research we found the housing report that triggered all of this. Its based on complete garbage.
We submitted lots of freedom of information requests to show what they have been doing. The council currently has a vast number of properties that fail the basic standards they are demanding from us.
We are awaiting the outcome of the consultation. They are trying to rip us off with an £825 fee for every single flat or property a landlord owns in the 2 areas they have targeted.
In reality the whole scheme is a con to bolster their own coffers. They are not adding a single penny to anything in the area. Feel free to get in touch. We will help anyone & in return will appreciate any help back.
This whole scheme is a complete con.
If you want to have copies of our reports & other details feel free to contact me - ivegottime@ymail.com
It's hard work & takes a lot of fighting. Not all landlords will go with you partly from lethargy or simply believing they will get nowhere. However other areas have succeeded. This kept us going. You will need to do a lot of running around to get people on board. The consultation vote is crucial. Win that heavily & they have a very difficult case to then justify the charge. We labeled it a TENANT TAX & warned the council our rents will rise. We will charge the tenants 825 in 1 go just as they are charging us. We will then inform all the tenants that this is the fault of the council.
Our actions made the council take us seriously. Even the local councillors have been worried as we have loudly stated that we will vote against them at the next elections.
We used wotsapp to form our group in order to easily communicate. We even held a couple of landlord meetings to get people on board. We were fortunate that some agents chased all of their landlords & brought them to the meetings. They can be your key.
The other major downside of this scheme as seen in Nottingham is that the council then feels empowered to start making all sorts of demands on your properties to generate more revenue in fines.

I have just looked at the scale of this proposal. It covers an absolutely massive area of Coventry. Look at this map! https://tinyurl.com/Coventry-Proposal

How come landlords don't know about this ? I just find out from another landlord asked me about it I didn't know .

Attempts have been made to attend certain forums on behalf of a number of landlords to be told the event was already fully booked.
This can't be correct!
Anybody who will be impacted by this significant change should be able to make their opinion known and ask questions.
It appears that the whole exercise is being rushed through under the radar so it will become too late to take any action against the proposals

All I can say for certain, any additional costs to us landlords, WILL be passed on to the tenants, there is zero doubt about that.

Should the council impose additional fees on landlords, they will indirectly impose those fees directly onto the tenants.

I 100% agree that landlords should provide a high standard of living, but at the end of the day, we're running a business and if we are forced to pay additional fees, we will recover those fees from the people that pay us (the tenants).

Anyone that thinks fees won’t be passed on, is seriously mistaken and out of touch with reality.

I have now repeated myself a number of times and hope the Council takes note that they are about to increase Coventry’s rent.