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Regulation & Law
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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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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Estate agent slams council’s HMO licensing ‘double standards’
Scott Brown of Littlejohns has slammed Edinburgh city council for housing homeless people in HMOs, which have not been licensed.
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Fines totalling £15,000 revealed for ‘potentially lethal’ HMO
Landlord Mark Hogg was fined £15k after Pendle Council discovered ‘appalling and unhygienic living conditions’ at his HMO.
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Landlords hit with jaw-dropping £400k fine for ‘dangerously unsafe’ HMOs
Three Northampton landlords have been found guilty of multiple licensing and safety breaches in 8 HMOs.
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Landlord fined for unlicensed HMO despite legal agreement with letting agency
A Portsmouth landlord has been fined £7,500 for an overcrowded HMO even though it was being run by a lettings agency under a guaranteed rent scheme.
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Slum landlord fined £60,000 for dangerously overcrowded HMO
East London landlord Ilyas Patel has been fined more than £60,000 for failing to licence a dangerously overcrowded rental property.
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Wales to treat HMOs as single dwellings for council tax
Propertymark’s Tim Thomas has welcomed the Welsh Government’s proposal to treat Houses of Multiple Occupation as single dwellings with a single Council Tax bill.
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‘Criminal’ landlord trio hit with huge £450k HMO fine
A group of three West Northants landlords have together been fined a total of £452,796 for a series of unlicensed and unsafe HMOs.
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Big council hits HMO landlord couple with £18,000 fine
Landlords Colin and Susan Woodward have been given an £18,000 fine by Dagenham Council after they refused to stop using their property as an HMO.
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