Renters Reform Bill – Is there any provision for landlords who are allergic to dogs/cats?

Problem I can see is, “Tenants can request a pet, which can’t be reasonably refused’.

Tenants will read, 'i'm allowed pets, it’s the law'.

Reply to the comment left by David Lester at 21/07/2023 - 11:56Extremely well put. All of your points would seem like common sense and to me that is the most frightening thing about what is being imposed upon landlords.
My experience of tenants with pets has been bad. I like to share real life experience just to put it out there.
A fully refurbished house with expensive carpets and a kitchen with granite tops etc suffered a dog and a cat without my permission. The tenants were there for 18 months. First thing I noticed was that the carpets were all frayed at the door jams? I couldn't figure it..Cormar Primo. I had it in my own place at the same time and it was still like new at mine and we are a family with 4 children and all that brings. Then a neighbour told me he was really pleased that the noisy dog had gone and it started to make sense. I realised that an animal had done it. Next, the kitchen island. Suddenly the scratches in the sides of that all made sense. That was bespoke with a £1000 of granite on it alone. It didn't end there. I got the carpets professionally cleaned for the new tenants. The next day the house STUNK. It seemed that cleaning the carpets had reactivated the smell of cat urine everywhere. The new tenants were sensitive (as am I) and had to delay their move in for a week. All just unnecessary hell so some pillocks could have Fido and Tiddles. I worked so hard on that house to make it a beautiful home for people,. Needless to say it has been sold now.
The above was my best experience. I had another house ruined by a slobber dog, but it troubled me less because I did a back to brick refurb. The smell when working there however was vile. I even found chewed dog toys under the old kitchen units behind plinths. Needless to say that house is now sold.
My parents had a place where the tenants only had a small courtyard and bought a stupid massive lock down dog rather than paying rent. They used to put some of the poo in an open metal dustbin. The rain mixed nicely with that. That "hazardous waste" was left for my parents in their 70s to deal with. My Dad had spent a year fully refurbishing that house when he retired and made it wonderful. This was the last straw, and needless to say that house has now been sold.
The common theme in all my pet experience as a landlord, because there has been a lot more than these over the years, is considerable financial loss to the landlord with zero compensation. When does our real fightback against political stupidity begin?

Reply to the comment left by Martin Roberts at 21/07/2023 - 18:59
then we have to educate them from the start PRE tenancy what the reality is and what the law actually states. If they don't like it, don't apply!

It shouldn't really matter to the landlord as you're not the one living there. There should be a clause that says the house has to be professionally cleaned like they use to in the case of children and pets.