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No rogue landlords issued with banning orders in 12 months

Not a single rogue landlord has been issued with one of the government’s new banning orders, a year after the key new power in the battle to root out the country’s worst rental property owners was launched.

New laws which took effect in April 2018 mean that slum landlords handed one of the new bans by the courts are prevented from letting out housing across England. Their details must also be entered on to central government’s new rogue landlord database for local authorities to share.

English councils can also make discretionary entries on to the computer system. However, even using this less onerous method, the details of just four landlords have been placed on to the database in the 12 months since it went live – and their names cannot be accessed.

The government has estimated that there are 10,500 rogue landlords operating in England, and previously said it expected more than 600 of the worst offenders to be entered on to the database.

The lack of use of banning orders and the rogue landlord database has been revealed after a freedom of information request filed by The Guardian newspaper in March.

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