Private Sector Housing
The Private Sector Housing Service within the Housing division
aims to exercise a regulatory / enforcement / encouraging role
against private property owners. We do this to eliminate
unsafe and unhealthy living conditions, to maximise the supply of
good quality decent housing and to increase the energy efficiency
of domestic dwellings in order to safeguard the health, safety
and welfare of the residents of the district.
We will re-focus our efforts to improve housing by moving away
from fitness for habitation and looking at hazards within a
dwelling and how to mitigate their effect. Government targets
for decent homes in the private sector is another driver that will
push our focus towards thermal comfort rather than disrepair.
Do you or are you thinking about renting from a
private landlord?
Renting
rooms in somone's home?
Rent deposit bond scheme (RDBS)
Repairs
Does your landlord
need a licence?
Reducing the
risks (Housing Health and Safety Rating System)
This page was last updated on 9/24/2008