12th
Sep 2013
Private landlords of Milton Keynes are up in arms and have issued a stark warning to the Council that if they insist upon introducing a new licensing system then availability of housing could be drastically reduced. The Council is looking at licensing all of the 18,000 plus homes in the private rented sector at a possible cost of £900 per property.
The Council is taking “advice” on levying the charge for all of the private rented properties and are giving the reason for the possible introduction of this charg, because of anti-social behaviour within the city.
The Milton Keynes Private Landlords Association’s Alex Caravello is warning that the fee, which could be as much as £900 per property, would more than likely have to be passed onto tenants by increased rents.
He goes onto to point out that elsewhere in the country where such a licensing system had been introduced had become extremely costly, untenable and shattered communities. He also suggested that because of the licensing lenders had reduced their number of mortgages and could cause wholesale crashes in the property market.
Milton Keynes Council’s housing chief Edith Bald has applauded the decision of spending £12,500 on consulting and taking advice on all issues, including HMO’s (Housing in Multiple Occupation), was a “blooming good investment” on this extremely important issue.
Meanwhile the council has once again stated that there are no proposals to introduce new licences for HMO’s and/or all private rented housing,
- P.I.M.S asks the question: “Then why spend the £12,500 on the consultation which closes on October 11th?” This is nonsense are purely indirect taxation on Landlords as Newham have done in London
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