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A council claims “hundreds of residents have been made safer in their homes” thanks to a licencing regime.
Sheffield council insists the scheme has helped remove safety hazards from nearly 500 properties between 2018 and last year.
The Selective Licensing designation to the south and south east of the city centre meant that where hazards were identified, the landlords carried out works to remove them to ensure tenant safety and compliance with licence conditions.
During the scheme’s five-year duration, 472 rental properties were licenced. Inspections identified 492 safety hazards in 46 per cent of those properties – 29 per cent of which were related to fire safety.
With those hazards rectified, around 800 people now live in safer homes, the council insists.
Some 65 financial penalties were served on landlords and seven prosecutions taken for offences under the Housing Act 2004.
A spokesperson for the council says: “This was a complicated scheme that required a lot of hard work to get these successes. It’s brilliant to know this has resulted in people being safer in their homes.
“Safety at home is vitally important and as well as the obvious physical benefits can also add to people’s wellbeing with the knowledge their homes are more secure.
“We’d like to thank all those we worked with to make this possible. I’m proud of the work that has been done and proud of the successes they have achieved.”
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Is there a single hazard that has been rectified that could not have been rectified by existing legislation? I doubt it. So all tenants get a rent rise because the council doesn't do its job properly!
SO Sad Tricia, but so true.
I'm lucky that none of my houses are in selective licencing areas. I would never buy a house that is, if the council changes it's mind and make it a selective licencing area, I would just have to pass along the cost and explain that it's the government causing it or sell. I don't like charging excessive rents and keep them as low as I can. If the government force me to increase rents so as they can rake in millions of pounds from landlords when they already have the powers to inspect and prosecute landlords, then it will be passed along and tenant will be informed why.
As far as I can see is selective licencing is just a money making scheme for cash strapped councils from landlords.
They then complain about landlords raising rents, when it is them to blame. I hope all landlords tell tenants why they are increasing their fees.
I wonder what the homelessness list looks like now in those wards in Sheffield...
My guess new available Rentals are rarer than hens teeth.
So higher rents in Sheffield 👍🏻💵💵
So, having been through licencing on all my properties (twice), the clipboard warrior from the council will ALWAYS find something to be done. It's part of their petty bureaucratic mindset. An understairs cupboard? - that'll be a fire hazard so it needs boarding out in pink fireproof plasterboard, sealed with fireproof sealant, the door needs fireproofing.
FFS - it houses the hoover and shoes! Tick - that'll be an improvement notice then
I am sure that is not a building regs requirement so should not be a license requirement
It will be the Tenants that suffer in the end as LL have to pass on any expenditure.
Why is it when any other industry increases their their prices the government accept it. Gas and Electric prices have gone through the roof, the government accept it and maybe ask them to reduce the cost for a while.
A landlord wants to make a small increase and then all hell breaks loose and we are the bad guys?
Price of food shooting up, same as everything else, no the focus is just on the landlord.
So i, like most landlords just keep jacking the rent up to cover the ever growing costs. Sadly this will exclude more people from renting but they can thank the Government for that.
Good. We only have to legislate about people who can't work out how to behave for themselves. You only have yourselves to blame.
Just like the idiots at Nottingham!! I've just sold my Notts City house for this very reason. Will never buy in license area.....probably never buy again.Any suggestions on how to invest what was my pension lump sum now I've got it back???
Put it into Bitcoin...
Gold.
Go onto Godfrey Bloom's website.
I dare say that if Sheffield Council sent their inspectors to their own social housing estates and inspected their own properties that they would find an equal amount of fire hazards in 50% of them.
Only 50%?
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