Selective Licensing review shows unwillingness to listen to Landlords

You say:
"leading to good landlords paying for effectively nothing"
That should say "Has led to GOOD TENANTS paying for effectively nothing". Cause that's what's happened in Nottingham.
They've had to pay for this rip-off scheme.

Most Nottingham houses had rent increase to pay for this fiasco.

Approx 16,000 good landlords have come forward. Approx 16-17,000 Landlords haven't.
Good Landlords & good tenants punished, our houses getting worse due to depleted funds & time. Bad Landlords houses stay silent.

And the Homeless is astronomical. I spoke to a Homeless section yesterday, she says her & her staff are ringing Private Landlords each 5 hours a day, NOT ONE house can they get.

I'm having a meeting with 'em in a few weeks, they want to hear why Landlords won't talk to 'em.
They need to be shouting up more to the Licensing dept what they are doing, as no one is doing this loudly enough for fear of their jobs.

I just had the evict a tenant because I am selling and downsizing my portfolio. The tenants couldn’t be housed by the council so a family of 4 living with their parents sad but an ever increasing theme of modern day housing in Tory Britain. Even when I spoke with council they had never heard of s24 and when I asked why are they stinging landlords with empty house council tax they said it’s to encourage landlords to let out their properties and not leave them empty couldn’t make it up. This on top of their ludicrous licensing extortion policy is it any wonder. 15 licenses and not one inspection wake up u useless money grabbing parasites u are destroying lives with your constant milking of landlords there isn’t anything left to milk hence why we are selling up in our droves when are they going to realise ???

Am I correct in thinking that when the Government announced that a review into the effectiveness of Selective Licensing was to take place it was stated that the review would include the comments of all stakeholders ?
When I attempted to enquire the means to do so I was advised that the consultants had yet to be appointed and I have never seen any further announcement until yesterday.
When reading the report there is little if any suggestion that the review was based on anything other than what local authorities had to say.
We all know that such authorities are cash strapped and licensing is a good means of bringing in an extra income stream though the review highlights that a number of such schemes are not self funding.
The review states that the recommendations are those of the authors of the report and not those necessary of the Government.
The recommendation for a national register does not specify how it should be operated and lists the annual MOT suggestion of the Rugg report as a option.
If this option was approved the inspections ( on all properties , not just those in subjective selective areas ?) would be undertaken by an independent body and selective licencing operated by local authorities presumably abolished .
Perhaps that is a fairer system though personally I would have though an annual MOT is over the top.

Isn't it strange how schools, the NHS and care authorities have for quite some time been reporting how they've been virtually abandoned due to Gov Brexit distractions, yet the Gov 'Steer private landlords into the ground dept' continues at full tilt! What it's really about is short term stealth taxes and perceived Tory votes!

Reply to the comment left by NW Landlord at 26/06/2019 - 08:49Perfect words
15 licenses and not one inspection wake up u useless money grabbing parasites u are destroying lives

Reply to the comment left by David Lovegrove at 26/06/2019 - 09:29
Yes, I tried to get involved too. Looks like they made it their intention to not hear the truth off the Landlords.
Like When the DWP boss at the time Alok Sharma said We know Universal Credit is working cause we've asked the job centres. Gees what a Thicko lot these Tory toffs are, don't go ask the real people, the tenants & the Landlords will u.

Same with this Licensing, fancy not asking us.

The government are after every penny they can get, nothing more - nothing less.

Got to love this bit of spin;

9.40 Analysis of Valuation Office Agency data on private rent levels in licensed areas does not support the claim that licensing has had a demonstrable effect on rent levels. On average, lower quartile rents in the areas interrogated increased by 274% over a representative five-year period (during which licensing was introduced in each case), whilst the licence fee alone (spread over 60 months) would account for an average increase of less than 3%. Even in the minimum case, the rent increase over the five year period was over 22 times the increase that can be ascribed to the licence fee alone. This is compelling evidence that the impact of market forces on rent levels dwarfs that of the cost of a licence.

So councils putting the boot into good landlords has nothing to do with rent increases.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Of course there are other contributing factors for the increases but implying that only 3% of the 274% increase is due to licensing is ridiculous.

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 26/06/2019 - 17:19"274%": where in the UK are rents 3.7 times the rents 5 years ago?
And, whilst the statement is "over 5 years", the referenced source is for 2017-18!

I also noticed that there appeared to be no input from LLs and Ts on the ground. So they have no idea that many LLs do not increase rents every year (they believe that LLs always charge the most they can get).

And they have no idea of what is going on with benefits freeze and how even 3% might tip a benefits tenant over the edge.