The national residential landlords association has put forward a solution that they say will streamline workloads for landlords and make it easier for the "vast majority of compliant landlords to prove to tenants what they already do, namely providing decent and safe housing" and that those landlords who don't so prove their bona fides "will have no option but to shape up or ship out."

A banning order has been granted against a landlord in Cambridge who was found guilty of "failing to comply with legal instruction to keep his tenants safe.".

Reading through residential property media these days isn’t guaranteed to calm a landlord’s nerves nor, for that matter, those of the average tenant, agent, environmental health officer or councillor. The sector seems to be experiencing a fever dream and it might be a while before the fever breaks.

The government has released its latest (2021) english landlord survey. Whilst unlikely to reach the top of the literary best seller lists the survey does provide a revealing snapshot of landlords operating in the private rented sector in the country.

In an ongoing crackdown on non compliant landlords with properties inside Doncaster's Edlington selective licence area, the council has issued 5 fines to landlords for licence breaches. The council says the fines handed out ranged from £500 to £2,940 and were imposed on landlords who failed to provide licence "compliance documents" when requested by the council.

Nottingham city council's executive board has approved a proposal for a new selective licence scheme to start in 2023 when its current scheme comes to an end. The city has a private rented sector estimated at just over 45,000 properties with a growth in size since 2011 from 25% of properties to 33% in 2021.

A new report from the county councils network (CCN) produced in collaboration with transformation and improvement specialists, Newton, claims that the Govt has underestimated the costs of new social care reforms to go live in 2023 until 2032 by around £10 billion.

Aiming to help "up to 20,000 more children and young people" the Government's new "Turnaround" scheme aims to catch young people before they fall into criminality - the cost to the economy of late intervention is estimated to be £17 billion.

The work & pensions secretary, Therese Coffey MP, has written to the chief executive of Ofgem, Jonathan Brearley, to express her concerns about some utility companies withdrawing from the Fuel Direct scheme set up to support customers who are DWP claimants and who are in arrears or are struggling to pay their home energy bills.

The department for business energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) has published updated guidance for people looking to upgrade home heating systems using low carbon technology such as heat pumps and biomass boilers.