The two year partnership will see Lloyds Bank, through fundraising, support Crisis in developing and setting up the new letting agency working with Scottish social enterprise letting agency Homes for Good.

The critical comment was made during the hearing of a rent repayment order (RRO) application relating to a PRS tenancy in Nottingham which has a city wide selective licensing scheme.

The council's planning enforcement team started an investigation after a neighbour reported that the side extension was being rented out.

At sentencing last week the District Judge reportedly said the case was "a deliberate, large scale operation of falsity .... engineered solely for financial gain and profit".

The landlord was allegedly also in the habit of visiting the property and staring through the windows at the tenants.