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A landlord has been given a £20,000 fine for failing to carry-out badly needed repairs on a property in Lancashire.  The fixed...

A city council has slammed what it calls ‘neglectful landlords’ as part of an illegal dumping crackdown. Stoke-on-Trent’s Labour authority has declared...

A landlord has been fined £10,000 by a Devon council for failing to tackle what it calls “essential repairs following a...

A landlord has been fined £10,000 by a Devon council for failing to tackle what it calls “essential repairs following a...

Landlords have been warned they risk fixed penalty notices and the loss of HMO licences if students leave rubbish in public...

Telford & Wreken council has served a fixed penalty notice on a private landlord in its patch. The £300 fixed penalty notice...

It goes without saying that any decent landlord wants to provide their tenants with a safe and secure home and to...

A private landlord has been slapped with a £400 fine for allowing a tenant’s waste to be fly-tipped on the site...

Complaints from the public about rubbish left in front of a house have led to a landlord being hit with a...

There’s been another report of a council targeting landlords over rubbish. A Community Protection Warning was served on an empty house in...

A local authority admits it is using covert cameras to spot landlords illegally fly-tipping. Darlington council claims there have been several incidents...

The owner of a property used for an illegal party has been fined by a London council for breaking lockdown. Police were called...

A council has issued a £445 Fixed Penalty Notice to a local landlord who disposed of his renovation waste in a...

A London local authority is to extend its current additional licensing scheme from 12 council wards to 18 - and is...

It is now illegal for tenants to be charged by landlords or letting agents in Wales in order to set up or...

On Sunday 1st September 2019, the Renting Homes (fees etc) (Wales) Act will come into force in Wales. The Act means that...

With just a few days until the Welsh tenant fee ban is introduced, landlords in Wales are being urged to adapt...

The Renting Homes (Fees Etc.) (Wales) Act 2019, banning landlords and letting agents from charging fees to tenants, will come into...

Property management company Titlecroft Limited has been fined £5,000 for failing to join a government-approved property redress scheme, which is a...

Most private landlords would oppose the idea of arbitrary checks of their rental properties by local authorities, but that has not...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,000 after being prosecuted for breaching new laws demanding that all...

City of York Council is holding a “decision session” today to discuss the introduction of fixed penalty notices for letting agents...