Regulation & Law
News articles looking at national legislation and local regulation and the application of law to the residential property industry.
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Crackdown planned on Grimsby’s ‘bad landlords’
North East Lincolnshire Council has voted in favour of a tough new selective licensing scheme for the fishing port town.
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Big council to roll out estate agency board ban
Westminster already restricts estate agent boards in conservation areas, and now wants to extend this limit across its entire area.
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Legal challenge launched against Government’s housebuilding plans
Save Greater Manchester's Green Belt has launched a legal challenge to plans to develop green belt land around Manchester.
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Surveyor kicked out by RICS after serving jail term
Trainee surveyor Alan Chapman was given a nine-month prison sentence for failing to reveal his mobile phone passcode to police investigating possible drugs offences.
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Landlord hit with £52,000 fine for ‘serious safety breaches’
Liverpool HMO landlord and his company were given a huge fine after they failed to complete repairs or appear in court.
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CLAIM: EPC compliance ‘not being policed by councils’
Just three of the country’s local councils have prosecuted landlords for breaches of EPC rules.
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HMO agency employee wins £33,000 after unfair dismissal
Miss S Lopez has won the award after an Employment Tribunal hearing following her unfair dismissal from two property firms based in Bexhill-on-Sea.
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Award-winning conveyancing firm shut down by regulator
GW Law Limited has been shuttered by the Solicitors Regulation Authority over ‘suspected dishonesty’.
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Landlord law expert attacks new licensing rules
Landlords Defence’s Phil Turtle says the new selective licensing rules are nothing more than 'council money-raising schemes.'
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Another big council changes planning rules to limit HMOs
Chair of Sutton's housing committee is putting an Article 4 Direction in place so that planning permission will be required to convert a property into a smaller HMO.
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