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.

The research was carried out for Shelter by YouGov via a survey of 2,006 privately renting adults and extrapolated using English Housing Survey figures for privately renting households.

The landlord had illegally altered buildings that he rented out as HMOs and then subsequently failed to comply with enforcement notices served on him by Hillingdon Council in London.

The Commons' library publishes these briefings in support of the work of MPs and parliamentary staff and this briefing provides a potted history and general overview of selective licensing from 2007 to 2023.

The property came within the council's additional licensing scheme but did not have a licence and "the only evidence provided by the [landlord] was a two-page witness statement" in which he said he shared the accommodation with the other occupants. He also did not attend the hearing.

The licence holder was also fined an additional £800 for not being a member of a recognised property redress scheme.