Already having a selective licensing scheme, Southend Council's proposed new "supplementary" housing standards enforcement policy will apply to the PRS across the city, particularly to HHSRS category 2 hazards.

The new selective licensing scheme proposals went out for public consultation in May 2022 and will require PRS landlords to get a licence showing they and their properties meet required housing standards.

The NRLA has criticised the Government's private rented sector energy efficiency plans saying they "have no hope of being met following the Government's failure to respond to [its own consultation]" which closed in January 2021.

In 2022 a number of councils setting up selective licensing schemes mentioned fuel poverty in private rented sector households when justifying their decision to utilise selective licensing as part of the housing standards regulatory toolkit.

The private rented sector property in Grangetown, Cardiff, had been changed into 4 self contained flats which were found to be unsafe and dangerous when inspected by council officers following a tenant complaint.

Covering 22 out of 24 wards in the borough, the council says that the granting of approval for a third consecutive selective licensing scheme is unprecedented.

Despite warnings from Warwick District Council, the doctor, who rented out a flat in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, illegally evicted their tenant and has now been convicted and sentenced under the Protection from Eviction Act.

Under its new selective licence scheme Oxford City Council will start looking for unlicensed private rented sector properties from 1st January 2023 as it exceeds initial expectations on numbers of so called "early bird" licence applications from private landlords and managing agents.

Reported in LandlordZone, the research, carried out for property data platform LandTech, suggests that up to 64% of PRS homes will be non-compliant when new minimum energy efficiency standards come into force in 2025.

London Borough of Islington Council is being investigated over damp and mould complaints that could indicate a more widespread failing by the council, as a landlord, to properly deal with such complaints.