Levelling Up White Paper – S21 abolished – Landlord register – Decent homes standard

7:59 AM, 2nd February 2022, About 3 years ago 78

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Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions will further be abolished, ending the unfair situation where renters can be kicked out of their homes for no reason.

We will consult on introducing a landlords register, and will set out plans for a crackdown on rogue landlords – making sure fines and bans stop repeat offenders leaving renters in terrible conditions.

The government will announce a plan that for the first time ever, all homes in the Private Rented Sector will have to meet a minimum standard – the Decent Homes Standard.

The above are the key plans that affect landlords directly in the government’s flagship Levelling Up White Paper being promoted today by Secretary of State Michael Gove. Click here to read the full press release.

The government aim is that by 2030, renters will have a secure path to ownership with the number of first-time buyers increasing in all areas; and the government’s ambition is for the number of non-decent rented homes to have fallen by 50%, with the biggest improvements in the lowest performing areas.

Other plans for the housing market include:

The government will support 20 of our towns and city centres, starting off with Wolverhampton and Sheffield, undertaking ambitious, King’s Cross-style regeneration projects, transforming derelict urban sites into beautiful communities. This work will be spearheaded by Homes England, which will be repurposed to, in addition to its existing functions, regenerate towns and cities.

The ‘80/20 rule’ which leads to 80% of government funding for housing supply being directed at ‘maximum affordability areas’ – in practice, London and the South East – will be scrapped, with much of the £1.8 billion brownfield funding instead being diverted to transforming brownfield sites in the North and Midlands. The Metro Mayors will be allocated £120 million of this funding.

Home ownership will be boosted due to a new £1.5 billion Levelling Up Home Building Fund being launched, which will provide loans to SMEs and support the UK government’s wider regeneration agenda in areas that are a priority for levelling up.

The government will further commit to building more genuinely affordable social housing. A new Social Housing Regulation Bill will deliver upon the commitments the government made following the Grenfell tragedy in 2017.

The government will give local authorities the power to require landlords of empty shops to fill them if they have been left vacant for too long.

Michael Gove said: “The United Kingdom is an unparalleled success story. We have one of the world’s biggest and most dynamic economies. Ours is the world’s most spoken language. We have produced more Nobel Prize winners than any country other than America.

“But not everyone shares equally in the UK’s success. For decades, too many communities have been overlooked and undervalued. As some areas have flourished, others have been left in a cycle of decline. The UK has been like a jet firing on only one engine.

“Levelling Up and this White Paper is about ending this historic injustice and calling time on the postcode lottery.

“This will not be an easy task, and it won’t happen overnight, but our 12 new national levelling up missions will drive real change in towns and cities across the UK, so that where you live will no longer determine how far you can go.”

Party Minister Boris Johnson said: “From day one, the defining mission of this government has been to level up this country, to break the link between geography and destiny so that no matter where you live you have access to the same opportunities.

“The challenges we face have been embedded over generations and cannot be dug out overnight, but this White Paper is the next crucial step.

“It is a vision for the future that will see public spending on R&D increased in every part of the country; transport connectivity improving; faster broadband in every community; life expectancies rising; violent crime falling; schools improving; and private sector investment being unleashed.

“It is the most comprehensive, ambitious plan of its kind that this country has ever seen and it will ensure that the government continues to rise to the challenge and deliver for the people of the UK.”

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Jo Taylor

21:46 PM, 11th February 2022, About 3 years ago

They will have to provide a route to allow landlords to remove tenants from their properties for all sorts of reasons -and I am sure there are many in the legal profession who would challenge this successfully. In many ways those able to handle the red tape and rules introduced by the Tories/councils over the last decade have done well with increased demand and often rental increases. Gove's ideas, as they stand, will effectively kill off SHTA and the market will just offer serviced accommodation and short term lets without security. Then at some point, in the future, a government will be elected that sees the benefits of promoting secure tenancies for families and individuals!
Saying that -the current lot are getting so many things wrong it is not certain how long it will be until regime change!

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Neilt

22:40 PM, 11th February 2022, About 3 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Jo Taylor at 11/02/2022 - 21:46They don't have to anything. Please don't kid yourself, regime change will be far worse. Check out the oppositions plans for the private rented sector

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Smiffy

10:20 AM, 12th February 2022, About 3 years ago

what are the landlords associations doing about this? NRLA etc? surely they are not sitting on their hands doing nothing?

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Carol

10:40 AM, 12th February 2022, About 3 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Smiffy at 12/02/2022 - 10:20
From what I read the NRLA are supporting the Government not the Landlords. The issue is we seem to have no voice. My portfolio is being sold. The future is too uncertain and risky

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Mike

3:54 AM, 15th February 2022, About 3 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Jo Taylor at 11/02/2022 - 21:46
Absolutely true, like the new Highway codes, oh it has become so hard to find sanity with our politicians, so both labour and conservatives are gambling on winning tenants votes, an easy way to bring in large number of votes at the expense of making landlords suffer, they call this levelling up, that is a load of tosh.

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9:18 AM, 15th February 2022, About 3 years ago

Where is the NRLA's social media campaign to improve the image of landlords?

Where is the NRLA's social media campaign to tell tenants that every time a landlord is kicked THEY pay for it?

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9:19 AM, 15th February 2022, About 3 years ago

Where is the NRLA's social media campaign to improve the image of landlords?

Where is the NRLA's social media campaign to tell tenants that every time a landlord is kicked THEY pay for it?

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Philip Savva

10:23 AM, 19th February 2022, About 3 years ago

Let’s hope when they create this roque landlord register, that they list some of the councils in this country top of the list, whom manage some the worst condition properties in this land, dickheads!

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