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Birmingham fines developer £240,000 in fire safety warning
Birmingham Council fines Avamore £240,000 over Solihull Heights fire detection failure, with 26 more blocks under enforcement.
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Southend landlords face three-month licensing gap from January
Sefton orders landlord to repay £22,477 in benefits
Pennycook: councils must open licensing registers to public
King strips OBE from rogue landlord after £300,000 fine
Hastings agency boss fined £24,500 after ignoring fire inspectors
HSE fines Wirral landlord £2,400 after eight years without gas checks
COHO finds 1 in 5 HMO tenants felt unsafe sharing
Stoke-on-Trent confirms city-wide HMO controls from 23 October
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Durham fines landlord £26,000 over repair failures
Durham County Council has fined a landlord £26,000 over repair and licensing failures at an Annfield Plain rental home, with £28,500 payable in total.
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Propertymark urges end to local licensing after PRS launch
Propertymark calls for local licensing to end as the PRS Database launches on 15 December, citing fees above £1,000 and weak enforcement capacity.
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Upper Tribunal cancels £11,000 HMO penalty against company director
The Upper Tribunal has cancelled Tariq Khuja’s £11,000 HMO penalty, ruling that sole-director status alone did not establish personal liability.
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Medway confirms 4 January licensing start for seven wards
Medway Council has confirmed that selective and additional HMO licensing will start in seven named wards on 4 January 2027.
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Brent fines HMO manager £50,000 over Wembley overcrowding
Brent Council has fined a Wembley HMO manager £50,000 after more than 20 people were found in a property licensed for fewer than half that number.
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St Helens issues £35,000 HMO penalties over licence breaches
St Helens Council has issued £35,000 in HMO civil penalties after finding a five-person shared home was unlicensed and poorly managed.
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Bristol court orders £58,271 over HMO licence and repair breaches
Bristol Magistrates’ Court has ordered a landlord to pay more than £58,000 after HMO licensing, repair and management offences.
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Propertymark urges licence-fee reporting as costs top £1,000
Propertymark has called for five-year cost reporting on landlord licensing schemes after warning that some fees now exceed £1,000 per property.
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Telford Council withdraws £1,500-plus HMO licensing plan
Telford and Wrekin Council has withdrawn its smaller-HMO licensing designation after an NRLA challenge, removing proposed fees of more than £1,500 per property.
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Zurich: cannabis farm claims cost landlords £9.4m
Zurich UK has investigated 17 cannabis farm claims worth £9.4m since January 2022, warning landlords about costly damage and long repairs.
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North Tyneside consults on HMO planning rule for 2027
North Tyneside Council proposes Article 4 controls from 6 August 2027, meaning small HMO conversions in eight wards would need planning permission.
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Propertymark challenges landlord fine uplifts in Bath and Gosport
Propertymark’s 14 September response challenges proposed landlord-fine uplifts in Bath and Gosport, warning that portfolio size alone should not increase a penalty.
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Croydon delays landlord licensing start to 25 September
Croydon Council has delayed the start of its new additional HMO and selective licensing schemes until 25 September, pushing back a 1 September launch and reopening the compliance timetable for affected landlords.
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Paragon: 28% of HMO landlords plan £10k-plus upgrades
Paragon Bank says 28 percent of HMO landlords plan to spend more than £10,000 on improvements over the next 12 months, with compliance, energy work and tenant expectations driving another round of upgrade spending.
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Propertymark says 3,198 Welsh penalties stemmed from licence gaps
Propertymark says almost all 3,198 fixed penalty notices issued by Rent Smart Wales in the year to May 2026 were linked to landlords who failed to register or hold the correct licence.
