Great Yarmouth is asking landlords for their views on extending selective licensing in the town.
Nottinghamshire local authority Gedling Council is relaunching selective licensing in its Netherfield ward in the new year after seeing “incredible improvements” to living standards.
The Government has rejected calls for 10-year selective licensing schemes and insists that the government recognises the burden that licensing puts on landlords.
Inspectors employed by a big London borough have started knocking on doors around Wembley to check whether landlords have a selective licence.
Mansfield is the latest major district council to reveal plans for a large selective licencing scheme.
Leeds Council plans to extend selective licensing across more of the city when the current scheme ends next year.
Lambeth has ignored landlord protests to launch its selective licencing scheme but backtracked on many onerous conditions.
Brighton & Hove City Council has set its controversial new selective licensing scheme live, which now covers 17 of its 23 wards.
Licencing schemes are a blunt instrument, pointlessly cost compliant landlords hundreds of pounds, are ignored by rogue operators and consume scarce council resources.
