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Landlords, satisfy my curiosity.
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Following on from a post on another thread where someone stated that the police would carry out checks on anyone wanting to rent the house next door to them, has anyone who is a landlord ever asked the police to do checks on prospective tenants, or been asked by the police to give information on prospective tenants before the tenancy is agreed?
And if so, any idea what powers they were using?
And if so, any idea what powers they were using?
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
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Following on from a post on another thread where someone stated that the police would carry out checks on anyone wanting to rent the house next door to them, has anyone who is a landlord ever asked the police to do checks on prospective tenants, or been asked by the police to give information on prospective tenants before the tenancy is agreed?
I haven’t seen this post, and I’m not a landlord, but you can’t just walk into a police station and ask them to ‘run checks’ on anyone. It would be a huge breach of GDPR and general human rights. You can’t even ask them to run a check on you. They only run checks when someone has committed a crime and for the purposes of investigation, not to help a landlord.0 -
Yes I'm sceptical as well, but the person is convinced that the police are going to check out anyone moving in next door to her due to harassment by previous neighbours who have now moved on, so I wondered if there was any semi-relevant legislation that she'd misunderstood.All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
Never heard of it no doubt the poster was mis-informed.
Closest thing would be the disclosure and barring service https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service which most certainly isn't for Landlords to use either.When using the housing forum please use the sticky threads for valuable information.0 -
Not seen the post, but No and No. Never even crossed my mind ; I am more concerned about taking up references (employer and previous landlord) and assessing affordability.0
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They won’t violate people’s human rights because someone else harassed someone. It may be that the housing association has said that they won’t knowingly house any ex offenders next to this person but, this is probably just said to placate rather than something that actually happens. Once released from prison ex offenders who have served their time have every right to live somewhere as anyone else.0
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Link, PLEASE!Following on from a post on another thread where someone stated that the police would carry out checks on anyone wanting to rent the house next door to them
I'm sure there are cases it'd be needed, and which powers would be used would depend on the reasons why.has anyone who is a landlord ever asked the police to do checks on prospective tenants, or been asked by the police to give information on prospective tenants before the tenancy is agreed?
And if so, any idea what powers they were using?
Neighbour to somebody under protection, something like that.
If it was something like a safehouse nearby, I'd imagine they'd be a LOT more subtle.
However, by the sound of it, I'm going to guess at the "Self-Important Walt Act, 2019". Shush. Parliament could tell you, but they'd have to kill you.0 -
Twolittlebears wrote: »The police, anti social behaviour officer and landlord were all working together to get the problem neighbours out and also do checks on any new tenants. How do you know nextdoors landlord hasn't requested any checks? I do know police did do checks. I don't know who's decision it was to do a check but because of the amount of harassment I had the decision was to do a check on any new tenant. Whether they need the new tenants permission or not, I do not know.
The thread in question is going a bit pear-shaped at the moment, so I'm waiting for some posts to suddenly vanish.All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
As asked..... LINK PLEASE!The thread in question is going a bit pear-shaped at the moment, so I'm waiting for some posts to suddenly vanish.
Otherwise this thread is just hot air.
Are you thinking of Sarah's Law?0 -
Its not that new neighbour, parcels with old neighbours surname thread is it?Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.0
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Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.0
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