5 October, 2015
2 October, 2015
New guidance from the Department for Communities and Local Government that describes new measures that will protect tenants from eviction when they raise a complaint about the condition of their home.
2 October, 2015
New guidance from the Department for Communities and Local Government for tenants and landlords in the private rented sector to help them understand their rights and responsibilities.
2 October, 2015
New regulations that exclude home businesses from the security of tenure given to tenants of premises which are occupied for business purposes, which will make it easier for tenants to be allowed business use of premises in a tenancy agreement, and for landlords to recover possession of the premises at the end of such a tenancy.
1 October, 2015
Launched by the charities Barnardo's and St Basil's in a bid to prevent homelessness among care leavers, the framework lists five steps that local authorities should take to put young people in control of their housing.
30 September, 2015
In an open letter to England's housing associations Shelter chief executive, Campbell Robb, calls for the sector to oppose the forced sale of council homes for fund Right to Buy discounts, replace every home sold with properties that provide low rents and security, and use any new allocations powers to help those families and individuals who need the security of a social home most.
29 September, 2015
29 September, 2015
However, new statistics from the Scottish government show that applications for homelessness assistance are down 7 per cent over same period in 2014.
28 September, 2015
Scottish Minister for Housing and Welfare writes to UK Government to express concerns about the roll out of the Immigration Act 2014 to Scotland and the linked Immigration Bill 2015 which was introduced to Westminster earlier this month.
25 September, 2015
New briefing lays out the new requirements on private landlords with reference to smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, and the avoidance of Legionnaires’ Disease
25 September, 2015
New report - The Forced Council Home Sell-Off - also recommends that, if the government wishes to extend the Right to Buy for housing associations, it should find other means of paying for the discounts, which should be decoupled from the forced sales policy.
25 September, 2015
Under the proposed deal - which has to be agreed by Britain's 1,400 housing associations by Friday 2 October - ministers would abandon plans to legislate for an extension of the right-to-buy scheme to 1.2m housing association homes, and in return, housing associations would voluntarily agree to sell their homes to any tenants who wished to buy them.
24 September, 2015
New DCLG statistics for April to June 2015 also show that there were 54,430 acceptances in the financial year 2014/2015, up 4 per cent from 2013/2014.
23 September, 2015
New report from the Local Government Ombudsman finds that, after investigating the fifth Ombudsman complaint into the sale of a council flat which took nine years, Lambeth Council was at fault because it had not progressed the sale for 13 months, for its poor communication about the lack of progress of the sale, and because, despite assurances to the contrary, it had not paid the £500 remedy it agreed in 2013.
23 September, 2015
New briefing sets out details of private sector landlords' new obligations to carry out immigration checks on tenants, brought in by the Immigration Act 2014 and amended by the Immigration Bill 2015.
21 September, 2015
New analysis by Shelter, reported by the BBC, finds just two of the 166 councils in England listed as selling properties through Right to Buy had succeeded in replacing more than 100 per cent of the properties sold.
21 September, 2015
Responding to a consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government, the LGA said rogue landlords should face stronger sentencing, tougher license conditions and potential blacklisting.
21 September, 2015
New regulations that, from 1 October 2015, require landlords in the private rented sector in England to ensure that a smoke alarm is equipped on every storey of their rented dwelling when occupied under a tenancy, and that a carbon monoxide alarm is equipped in any room which contains a solid fuel burning combustion appliance, and also require landlords to ensure that such alarms are in proper working order at the start of a new tenancy.
18 September, 2015
New regulations that amend the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 in relation to England only so that, under tenancies entered into after 1 October 2015, the carrying on of a home business will no longer entitle domestic tenants to renew tenancy agreements as business tenancies.
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