Boston Borough Council has decided not to go ahead with plans to license private rented sector landlords. Instead the council plans to wait and see how a fund to deal with rogue landlords works.
The decision was made at a cabinet meeting yesterday (Monday) morning. The cabinet agreed to the recommendations from the Corporate and Community Committee following consultation on the controversial licence plans which had been running since October 2013.
The Boston Standard reported that instead the group voted to work with landlord associations to promote good practice, and to look into the findings of the ‘rogue landlord’ funding when it finishes, before applying for it to continue when it expires next year.
Portfolio holder for housing Mike Gilbert and council leader Peter Bedford both called the consultation ‘worthwhile’.
Coun Bedford said: “The scrutiny committee I attended was a very worthwhile meeting and there was some good points put across.”
Coun Gilbert said the whole process had been useful to highlight the difficulties Boston faced and ways to deal with them.
Scrutiny committee chairman Coun Paul Gleeson said that if the Rogue Landlord Scheme did not improve issues in the private rented sector, the council still had the option to licence Houses in Multiple Occupation.
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