They are promoting their new county-wide 'private landlord accreditation scheme'.
The scheme is voluntary, but any landlords signing up for the scheme must adhere to a set Code of Practice.
Read Durham County Council’s Private Landlord Accreditation Scheme
To be accepted onto the screen a landlord must be seen as 'fit and proper' and not be found to have -
The scheme costs to join. Starting at £150 for a landlord of up to ten properties, £250 for 11- 50 properties, £350 for 51-100 properties, £500 for 100+ properties.
Read Durham County Council’s Private Landlord Accreditation Scheme
To be accepted onto the screen a landlord must be seen as 'fit and proper' and not be found to have -
- A conviction for illegal eviction or harassment of tenants in the last seven years
- A conviction for violence towards any persons in the last seven years.
- A conviction for mortgage, Housing Benefit or Council Tax fraud or breach of grant
- conditions within the last three years.
- Failed to comply with any statutory notice or House in multiple Occupation requirements resulting in prosecution or works being carried out in default in the last three years.
- Breached Selective Licence or any laws relating to housing, public health or environmental health.
- A conviction for non-compliance of a Planning Enforcement Notice relating to a residential property within the last three years.
- Practiced unlawful discrimination on the grounds of sex, colour, race, ethnic or national origins or disability.
- Other convictions which would indicate the unsuitability of the applicant under the scheme.
The scheme costs to join. Starting at £150 for a landlord of up to ten properties, £250 for 11- 50 properties, £350 for 51-100 properties, £500 for 100+ properties.
The council claims the benefits to membership are -
- Information and guidance to promote good management practices
- Recognition of landlords offering good quality accommodation
- A certificate awarded for recognition to display on premises
- Advertising of empty properties on our Durham Key Options website; the website accessed by people looking and registering for social housing
- Access to a waiting list of potential tenants
- Pre-tenancy support for tenants
- A tenant referencing service
- Post tenancy support
- A tenancy agreement
- A template inventory
- Anti-social behaviour assistance
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