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Nottingham landlord licensing scheme is a farce, says RLA

A landlord licensing scheme in Nottingham has so far managed to issue full licences to fewer than 3% of the applications received, according to the Residential Landlords Association (RLA).

In August 2018, Nottingham City Council introduced a Selective Licensing Scheme across many parts of the city as a key part of its efforts to address the quality and management of private rented housing.

Figures provided to the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee however, show that by August 2019, whilst 17,523 applications for a licence had been received, just 472 final licences had been issued. The Council estimates that a total of 24,000 applications are eventually likely to be received.

The RLA has branded the painfully slow progress in processing applications a farce and has called on the Council to scrap the scheme. David Smith, policy director at the RLA, said: “Nottingham Council cannot have it both ways. Either it believes landlord licences are important, in which case they should process applications promptly, or they do not, in which case they should scrap what amounts to a money making scheme.”

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