Consultation outcome

Rogue landlord database reform

From:
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
Published
21 July 2019
Last updated
8 September 2022 — See all updates
This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

As set out in the ‘a fairer private rented sector’ White Paper, published in June 2022, we will introduce a new Property Portal to make sure that tenants, landlords and local councils have the information they need. The portal will provide a single ‘front door’ for landlords to understand their responsibilities, tenants will be able to access information about their landlord’s compliance, and local councils will have access to better data to crack down on criminal landlords. We also intend to incorporate some of the functionality of the Database of Rogue Landlords, mandating the entry of all eligible unspent landlord offences and making them publicly visible.

Original consultation

Summary

Seeks views on widening access and considering the scope of the database of rogue landlords and property agents.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

​The database of rogue landlords and property agents was introduced in April 2018. The database is targeted at only the most serious and prolific criminals, who are convicted of the limited range of banning order offences. The database is currently an enforcement tool available to local authorities, except in certain circumstances where anonymised, aggregated data can be requested by the public.

In October 2018 the Prime Minister committed to opening up access to information on the database of rogue landlords and property agents to tenants. This consultation is seeking views on widening access to the database to allow tenants and prospective tenants access to the database. To ensure that the database is a useful tool for local authorities and tenants, we are also seeking views on expanding the scope of offences and infractions which could lead to entries on the database.

Annex A contains the current list of offences and infractions which lead to inclusion on the database.

Annex B contains a list of proposed offences and infractions for inclusion on the database.

For any enquiries please contact PRSenforcement@communities.gov.uk

Documents

Rogue landlords database reform

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Annex A: existing offences list

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Annex B: proposed offences list

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Updates to this page

Published 21 July 2019
Last updated 8 September 2022 + show all updates

  1. Added government response

  2. First published.

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