Nottingham Council follow up letter – Making 350 homeless

Bravo
I have increasingly come to the conclusion that Mick should be made Minister of Housing. I suspect that in 5 years time we would have a properly functioning housing system.

My AST states the rent plus any taxes imposed by local or central government, this partially solves the financial problem.

I tried to produce floor plans for my 50 plus properties some years ago but soon gave up as the task was monumental. Why should a local council require such information?

Whilst I appreciate Mick your direct common sense approach, NCC will only react to specific legislative limits, not what you/anyone else thinks is best.

Pursue the Brown v Hyndburn Borough Council case with them as thumb-locks are NOT a requirement under existing legislation for a standard BTL, so cannot be made part of the licence conditions...same with many other conditions.

£2 per week gets me a replacement front door lock every year where I operate.

I can categorically state that by introduction of Selective Licensing is pushing some of the poor tenants out of many areas where this scheme is being brought in.
Tenants who are affected by this diabolical scheme are :
Low paid workers.
students.
anyone else who cannot afford to rent a whole house
These people can only afford to rent into a shared accommodation such as small HMOs. (up to two story buildings)
Selective and additional licensing is now limiting the number of people who can be accommodated in a decent size small HMOs,
To give you a real example, a two story house with 3 full size bedrooms upstairs , (No box room) and two bedrooms on the ground floor with a adequate size common room and a decent size Kitchen, with two bathrooms one on Ground floor and one on first floor.
Local council licensed it for 7 maximum occupants of any age, so this includes for example a baby of 1 year old or under!
So I have let it to 3 couples, plus one child, that is all 7 persons, and I still have two rooms empty that can house at least 4 more persons.
Further more, the number of small HMOs are now being treated as large HMOs thus requiring planning permission, this means more people will be forced out as planning applications will be rejected, thanks to Sajid Javid who is trying to fix housing crises, and he has not got frigging clue.

Expect much worst to come, and my Diabolical Award goes to Sir Robin Wales for introducing this stupid and diabolical scheme first ever in England in Newham. Is there any wonder Newham had more share of homeless persons. there you go Sir Robin Wales.

Your link to the appeal judgement is great reading.

Of particular relevance in your case seems to be:

- paragraph 72, referencing paragraph 39 of the guide: costs to 'good' landlords.

Also Lady Justice King's comments, paras. 78 and 79 "regulating management, use or occupation does not allow the application of conditions that regulate the condition and contents of a house or what facilities and equipment should be available".

Hello I am a Gainsborough Landlady who has properties in a Selective Licencing area and we can become members of Home Safe based in Doncaster. They maybe able to help you with the Nottingham Councils Selective Licencing unfair requests.

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 07/03/2018 - 14:48mick im a landlord from nottingham and i also only deal with housing benefits i have over 20 properties and would like to know who to write to, that would make a possible 70 houses and families made homeless ,also if you could email me i would't mind meeting up with you to discuss this problem with you if at all possible my email is eastmidlandsstructures@ntlworld.com regards ts

There's more news, they've now put the price up to £780 & £520. Unbelievable!

Yeah, they make the Minister of Housing from someone who han't got a clue about housing. How can u walk from one dept to another with no experience? Just cause u went to Uni, u need to be expertise in your field. Proper Jobsworths the lot of 'em.

Ha ha yes David, how are we doing these floor plans? Without software? Time lots of it? Or paying for outside help?

Luke, I agree, I'm fighting a losing battle, They rang me yesterday & trying to get a meeting with them & some of us Landlords before 1 April.
He said they may concede on the floor plans, as my tenants have been writing in to MP saying What do we need floor plans for when we been here years?
But I've said floor plans is only 10% of the problem, we need to sit through all conditions & go through one by one & tick each one with time required & they may come to something like 4 hours per houses x number of houses. Where is the time coming from?
Luke, you have experience of this, email me ring me mick.roberts2011@hotmail.co.uk if u can give me any ammunition.

I was going to try Ombudsman complaint at later stage-I'll try anything-They've got some map drawing wrong, here is my text:

Who has drawn your map? Has a 3 year old drawn the map?

You’ve included Bestwood maybe ‘cause it’s had it’s troubles in the past. Bestwood Park hasn’t had it’s troubles.
We all know throughout the WHOLE of the UK, a good area finishes & the end house sometimes meets the not to good area.

Why has Holmewood crescent Bestwood Park £120k houses been included, but rest of Bestwood Park not? Holmewood Crescent has been included with the £80k houses from Bestwood.

I know what Licensing has done, drawn a map and din't know how to curve the line on the computer. So it was easier to just include those with the others. Holmewood is top little quiet U road. It doesn’t get any bother. It IS IN the good area. But your map-drawer thought it was quicker to include it rather than finding some proper person who can use map drawing on computer. So you should have done the map drawing by hand & scanned it.
I’ve got a 2k bill ‘cause u don’t know how to use a map.

Also within this mistaken 2 year olds map is another one of my house. I bought it 18 years ago, woman lived there 18 years, never had any trouble, she’s not got an asbo, nor has the house. It is next to the road where they mean’t to include Licensing.
This woman also has had no gas for over a year now. We can’t get the boiler serviced as she has no gas. Do I now get fined £30k for no boiler service? When tenants run out of gas, it sometimes gets worse as the gas company puts on daily standing charge, say £8 a month, so the longer they leave it, the worse it gets for them.

I’ve got another 2k bill ‘cause u don’t know how to use a map.
Both these houses, never any trouble in 18 years. From tenants, authorities, police etc.

Luke,

What if my tenants have signed a tenancy, they sign this tenancy, as long as don’t have to comply with any future Licensing scheme that current or future authority may bring in. Something like:

The tenant only signs this tenancy on condition that he or she shall not have to comply with any future Licensing scheme that current or future authority may bring in.
The tenant doesn’t give permission for anyone to enter property apart from the Landlord or The Gas safety man, unless anything is dangerous & workmen need to get in quick.
He was shocked on this yesterday, they seem amazed that some tenants actually like their Landlord & don't want Licensing in their house. He said Why can't we go in your house? I said U getting that wrong, it is THEIR HOME,
This is tenants text:

Im writing to inform you that im at high risk of being kicked out of my property due to Nottingham Council Selective Licensing. Im very happy with my landlord, whenever there is a repair needing to be done all I have to do is give him a call and its sorted within 24hours. Ive been it my landlord coming upto two years now and never had a problem, I do not want inspections in and around my home this is why i signed up with him and not a letting agency, we have a relationship based on trust, these checks are an invasion of privacy and in breach my human rights. I didnt sign up to this, I dont want anyone in my house apart from the gas service people and the repair companies. I do not agree with these terms as this will result in rent increase. If i was to be made homeless then that includes making my two children homeless who must i state are under the age of 5, they have lived here since being a young age and have settled into this home.

Why is this being forced on me?

Why do we need to have pictures of the floorplan when i have lived here long enough. If this was to go through to a letting agent and these dont take people with bad/no credit and are unable to get references, so the only thing they will do is issue us notice and where are we going to go expect a travelodge homeless in sheffield which is too far from schools and family.

Im happy that my boys have a happy stable home that your willing to take away from them, i struggle with money as it is without having to have my rent increased all the spare money i have goes on raising my children and your willing to take that away from them aswell.

I've pursued the case u mention with them, he seems to think it won't matter with them.

Yes Mike 100% the poorer tenants won't be allowed in these areas again, the Landlords now are scared of the conditions & will just avoid any future trouble when new tenants.

Any help from u lot would be appreciated.

Tony Selective.Licensing@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
jon.collins@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Complain to Council etc.
Write & email Housing Aid too 'cause they knew this was gonna' happen. housingaid@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Send me your email & phone number & I can include u in any emails texts. Oops yeah got your email now.
But at moment they ain't interested.