Housing enforcement guidance
Targeted enforcement action
Housing services may take targeted enforcement action to address concerns in a particular geographical area or type of property.
This may be triggered by:
- concerns about unlicensed houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs) in an area
- concerns about concentrations or increases in numbers of empty properties
- concerns about concentration of HMOs in an area
- low quality housing in an area predominantly in the private rented sector
- checking HMO licence conditions
- concerns about properties owned by a portfolio landlord where some properties have fallen significantly below legal standards or have category 1 hazards present
- investigating whether to introduce selective or additional licensing
- information from energy performance certificates including entries on the exemptions register from the Minimum Level of Energy Efficiency standard (EPC band E) 2018 regulations