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Originally Posted by Neil
Who owns these houses?
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Primarily out-of-town property developers who couldn't give a toss about Hyndburn and will buy up cheap houses and leave them to rot until the market is right for piling money into them. We need strict regulation on landlords which, unfortunately, is not entirely within HBC's remit and is controlled at national level by the government of the day.
The new government
may decide to look at things in a new light but as it stands there is a hefty validation time for regulation schemes before it can be rolled out further and the one in the five Hyndburn wards hasn't even started yet (October, I think).