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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
I agree with the licensing but do thing it should cover all the borough and not just selected areas. Seems to me that all that will happen is absent landlords who care not a jot about the state of their property or what type of tenant they have will just move on to other areas. This scheme needs to be rolled out across the borough.
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Unfortunately the scheme would not have been approved by the department of Communities and Local Government (CLG) if it had covered the entire borough. As it is, it was only through the intervention of Greg Pope, who spoke to the Minister for CLG - John Healey, that the scheme was sanctioned. It had originally been thrown out by the Government Office North West because they felt that it covered to large an area. Graham Jones had already discussed the scheme and other housing problems that there are in the borough at the Labour Party conference in Brighton last September.
In other local authorities, where there are Selective Licensing schemes, that have been up and running for several years, Selective Licensing has been extended to cover other areas. In Salford, there are now 2 designated areas and in Manchester 3.
Selective Licensing for Local Authorities a Good Practice Guide by Shelter
http://england.shelter.org.uk/__data...uthorities.pdf
Also this is an article from Salford Advertiser dated 4 March 2010 about a landlord being fined £6000 for not signing up to the selective licence scheme.
Landlord fined for no licence - Salford Advertiser
Also a report of a landlord being prosecuted for not bringing their property up to standard.
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