30 March, 2015
30 March, 2015
New report finds that renters continue to be subject to poor levels of service and variable, often inexplicably high fees, and calls for ban on agents charging tenants for routine parts of letting process.
27 March, 2015
New regulations issued in relation to the form that local authorities are required to use in registering a 'repayment charge' - that allows local authorities to create a security for costs arising in connection with enforcement powers under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 - with the appropriate land register.
27 March, 2015
New guidance that explains the criteria for making a selective licensing scheme and discusses the types of evidence that local authorities will require to support an application, and highlights that from 27 March 2015 additional criteria for making a scheme will apply, and designations may be made to combat problems of poor property conditions, an influx of migration, a high level of deprivation or high levels of crime.
27 March, 2015
New regulations issued in relation to a local housing authority's power to designate parts of their area as subject to selective licensing - requiring privately rented dwellings in that area to be licensed by the housing authority - to extend the grounds on which a designation can be made to include poor property conditions, current or recent experience of large amounts of inward migration, high levels of deprivation, or high levels of crime.
27 March, 2015
New regulations issued that: amend the statutory powers of entry of officers of the Valuation Office Agency contained in the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and the Local Government Finance Act 1992, to insert a requirement to obtain authorisation from the First-tier Tribunal prior to exercising the powers; amend the notice period in the 1988 Act; and amend the fine level in the 1992 Act.
27 March, 2015
27 March, 2015
New regulations that specify persons that are not letting agents for the purposes of Chapter 3 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
27 March, 2015
New regulations that ensure that where a local housing authority uses a local connection requirement as a criterion to decide whether a class of persons are qualifying persons for an allocation of housing accommodation, they must not apply that criterion to certain persons.
27 March, 2015
New briefing note explains the old Housing Fitness Standard and the reasons for its replacement with the Housing, Health and Safety Rating System before giving an overview of how the new HHSRS works.
27 March, 2015
New resource from Crisis to help organisations working with homeless people moving into shared accommodation.
27 March, 2015
New Act which includes a number of provisions relating to housing including measures to prevent retaliatory eviction.
27 March, 2015
New report - Still Let Down - calls for letting agents’ fees to be banned to protect tenants in the private rental sector.
26 March, 2015
New statistics from the Department for Communities and Local Government also show that there has been a 6 per cent increase in the number of households accepted as homeless in the last quarter of 2014 compared to the last quarter of 2013.
26 March, 2015
New policy paper from the Department for Communities and Local Government setting out the issues around 'complex needs homelessness' and exploring what more could be done to improve outcomes in the future.
26 March, 2015
New briefing note highlights that asylum seekers who are destitute can apply to UK Visas and Immigration for accommodation and/or financial support but also points out that local authorities are responsible for providing support to unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
24 March, 2015
New statutory instrument provides that Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (help for people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness) is added to the homelessness functions that may be contracted out by local authorities under the Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Allocation of Housing and Homelessness Functions) Order 1996.
24 March, 2015
New analysis shows that, of every £1 of council tax collected by councils in 2019/2020, 60p will be spent on caring for the elderly, vulnerable adults, and vulnerable children, up from 41p in 2010/2011.
24 March, 2015
Communities Secretary sets out details of its replacement by 'a new, leaner, framework which, whilst it retains the knowledge and expertise of the commission where it has value, will create more freedom and flexibility for local public bodies, replacing top-down inspection with local accountability'.
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