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Written by rosalind renshaw

A council is considering naming and shaming private landlords who have been issued with enforcement notices to improve their properties.

East Staffordshire Borough Council says it has 250 complaints a year and is considering the plans in a bid to improve the quality of the private rented sector. It is also considering asking tenants to self-assess their properties.

The council says it has only a small team to deal with the complaints and so is looking at ways to step up its enforcement activities, potentially naming ‘bad’ landlords to make sure tenants know exactly who they are renting from.

Richard Asher, housing standards manager, said: “We want to assist tenants in ensuring the landlord they are – or could be – renting from is a responsible landlord. So for landlords we’ve taken enforcement action against, we could have their names published.”

However, he said the measure could have legal issues, which the authority is investigating.

He said the council had looked at several landlord accreditation schemes but ruled them out because it feared that only good landlords would join them.

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    What happens if you live 200 miles away from your properties and can't maintain them to council standards?

    • 26 February 2012 16:22 PM
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