Since one London local authority introduced private rental sector licensing in 2013 an extra £5,002,203 in council tax has been collected from landlords renting out HMOs.
Newham’s licensing originally began five years ago but was forced, by government, to re-launch from scratch in March this year; since its restart it has processed and issued over 30,000 new licences.
In the same period the team council has taken action against landlords in 120 cases where serious and dangerous disrepair was discovered or landlords were breaking the law.