http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/blog/legal-briefing/new-consultations The LandlordZONE Weblog - news, economic and legal developments, current affairs and a knowledgebase for those involved with Rental Property, residential and commercial: Investors, Landlords, Property Managers, Letting and Estate Agents, Tenants and Professionals. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:22:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/blog/legal-briefing/new-consultations#comment-5354 Richard Percival Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:42:23 +0000 http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/blog/?p=130#comment-5354 The Law Commission's proposals, currently out for consulation, actually (provisionally) reject licensing of landlords. Rather, we suggest a system of "enforced self-regulation", under which landlords would have to belong to a self-regulatory organisation, which could be a national or regional landlords' association, a local authority accreditation scheme, or something else, like the student schemes that exist in some areas. Alternatively, a landlord could let through an agent who was a member of an agents' self-regulatory organisation. The aim of this system would be to effectively replace existing regulatory systems, like the existing licensing systems, and be the first port of call where tenants had complaints against landlords (rather than the courts). We would be very grateful for comments on the proposals - the link to the papers is given in the original posting. I am also happy to discuss the proposals - I'm the team manager of the Law Commission team responsible, and can be emailed at richard.percival@lawcommission.gsi.gov.uk. The Law Commission’s proposals, currently out for consulation, actually (provisionally) reject licensing of landlords. Rather, we suggest a system of “enforced self-regulation”, under which landlords would have to belong to a self-regulatory organisation, which could be a national or regional landlords’ association, a local authority accreditation scheme, or something else, like the student schemes that exist in some areas. Alternatively, a landlord could let through an agent who was a member of an agents’ self-regulatory organisation. The aim of this system would be to effectively replace existing regulatory systems, like the existing licensing systems, and be the first port of call where tenants had complaints against landlords (rather than the courts).
We would be very grateful for comments on the proposals - the link to the papers is given in the original posting. I am also happy to discuss the proposals - I’m the team manager of the Law Commission team responsible, and can be emailed at richard.percival@lawcommission.gsi.gov.uk.

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