BTL is in desperate need of reform

Wee_Willy_Harris

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Carried out a search on Leeds, another of your listed LA's and they are only envourages to register.
It's not a requirement.


http://www.leeds.gov.uk/page.aspx?pageidentifier=B31D25C9880F1BED80256E14003DA4CD

You've linked to their Landlords Accreditation Scheme which (and the different name is a clue) is a different scheme altogether.

Wee_Willy_Harris

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Carried out a search on Leeds, another of your listed LA's and they are only envourages to register.
It's not a requirement.


http://www.leeds.gov.uk/page.aspx?pageidentifier=B31D25C9880F1BED80256E14003DA4CD

And here's the link to Selective Licensing in Newcastle... http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/selectivelicensing

As I've already said, it's Google, not rocket science. If you want to find "selective Licensing", just type "selective Licensing" into the search box.

Wee_Willy_Harris

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Same with Bolton

http://www.barlo.org.uk/22.html

That page is titled "Bolton Accredited & Residential Landlords Organisation" and is about... um.... the Bolton Accredited & Residential Landlords Organisation. If you wanted to look into "selective licensing", you could have found it by searching for.... um..... Selective licensing....

http://www.bolton.gov.uk/website/pages/Selectivelicensing.aspx

Wee_Willy_Harris

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Maybe you need to slow down and try to read and understand the posts

I'm not sure that anyone could go quite slow enough for you to keep up.

IveSeenTheLight

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

To quote your quote "The scheme will DEMAND that landlords commit to....... "

Here's the two paragraph's before my quote

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to be the latest local authority to pilot landlord registration.
If approved, a scheme will launch next year in the Tunstall area, allowing the council to require private landlords to acquire a licence before they can let property.

Again only selective and only a pilot for one small area.

Still positive signs I guess

IveSeenTheLight

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

You've linked to their Landlords Accreditation Scheme which (and the different name is a clue) is a different scheme altogether.

I searched Leeds Landlord registration.
The link I posted was the closest I could see in my quick search.

I was of course trying to find the information you were so sure about.

IveSeenTheLight

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

That page is titled "Bolton Accredited & Residential Landlords Organisation" and is about... um.... the Bolton Accredited & Residential Landlords Organisation. If you wanted to look into "selective licensing", you could have found it by searching for.... um..... Selective licensing....

http://www.bolton.gov.uk/website/pages/Selectivelicensing.aspx

Why should I search for selective licensing?
I've been asking which areas require registration.
To be a requirement, surely it needs to be fully funtional and not "selective"

Here's the link I previously posted for Scotland showing a requirement for all owners of residential property who let property must register unless they are covered by one of the exemptions.
https://www.landlordregistrationscotland.gov.uk/Pages/Process.aspx?Command=ShowHomePage

Exemptions


Exemptions apply to properties rather than to people. If all of a landlord’s properties in a particular local authority area are covered by one or more of the exemptions, he or she does not need to register with that authority. If some of his or her properties are exempt, the other properties must still be registered. A property is exempt from registration if it is:

• the only or main residence of the landlord, where there are not more than 2 lodgers
• let under an agricultural tenancy and occupied by the agricultural tenant (please note that any properties that you let WILL require to be registered – including tied property, unless specifically exempt e.g. holiday accommodation)
• let under a crofting tenancy
• occupied under a liferent
• used for holiday lets only
• regulated by the Care Commission, in certain categories
• owned by a religious organisation and occupied by a leader or preacher of that faith
• occupied only by members of a religious order
• let to members of the landlord’s family only
• held by an executor for a period less than 6 months
• possessed by a heritable creditor for a period less than 6 months
• owned by a person acting as a insolvency practitioner for a period less than 6 months, unless the appointment is made by the Accountant in Bankruptcy. In that case, crown immunity applies and there is a permanent exemption from registration.
• owned by a local authority or Registered Social Landlord

There is no "selective" licensing involved

IveSeenTheLight

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

I'm not sure that anyone could go quite slow enough for you to keep up.

It seems the question needs to be practically spelled out to you before you understand it.
Even then you desperately try to hide behind "selective licensing"

in a forlorn attempt to look slightly sell stupid than you clearly are, seems a little bit desperate.

IveSeenTheLight

Maybe you should revisit you list of compulsary landlord registration requirements
You could say that in some of the following LA's there is some "selective licensing" requiring the properties in certain areas are regisitered

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Middlesbrough
Manchester
Gateshead
Leeds
Neath Port Talbot
Bolton
Newcastle
Blackburn
Thanet
Stoke
Hundburn
Hartlepool
Durham
Salford
Newham
Southend
Burnley
Gravesham
Waltham Forest
Pendle
Oldham
Sunderland
Blaenau-Gwent
Rotherham

That should be enough to get you started. And it covers private rentals.

Wee_Willy_Harris

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Why should I search for selective licensing?

Because that's what it's called. In much the same way that you don't look for "oranges" by typing "Sheep".

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

I've been asking which areas require registration.

And I've provided a list of LA's using (or soon to implement) selective licensing.

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

To be a requirement, surely it needs to be fully funtional and not "selective"

Almost every piece of legislation is selective in some way. In this case, the only real "selective" element is in the designation of individual areas. But I assume it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility to roll it out to wider areas until it becomes, effectively, a national scheme. Why re-invent the wheel?