1. Debi Waite Consultant for LG Regulation
Additional Licensing
Debi Waite
Consultant for LG Regulation
Insert date
Insert website

2. LG Regulation Discretionary Licensing Project
General consent – April 2010
CLG commissioned LG Regulation to provide guidance and support
Project runs until March 31st 2011
Bespoke support for 12 Councils
Production of a Legacy Resource
Project centres around a Community of Practice

4. Additional Licensing – main points
Area of designation
Type of HMO
A significant proportion of the HMOs of that description in the area are being “managed sufficiently ineffectively as to give rise, or likely to give rise, to one or more particular problems either for those occupying the HMOs or for members of the public”.

5. Additional Licensing - Considerations
Must ensure AL is consistent with your overall Housing Strategy, Homelessness Strategy and policy for dealing with anti social behaviour
Must adopt a co-ordinated approach in dealing with overlapping issues of homelessness, empty properties and asb affecting the private rented sector

6. Considerations continued..
Have regard to other possibilities – combining licensing under Part 2 with other courses of action available to you – injunctions restraining asb or other steps which may be taken by others.
Other courses of action available to you which might prove an effective way to address the problems faced.

7. Other courses of action
Management orders to address problems associated with individual or small numbers of HMOs in a specific area.
Accreditation Schemes
Work of other agencies such as Police, Voluntary Sector, ASB practitioners, social services etc. in tackling matters.
Targeted operations

8. Workshop Exercise
In your groups consider an area/district and discuss the main issues of concern.
How widespread are they?
Can you factually support the issues?
Who would you engage to work with you on the issues?
If licensing did not exist what would you do?
What resources would it take?

9. Small Exercise in your groups when pursuing Additional licensing Designations
To be revealed in workshop

10. Additional Licensing - preliminary research
What are the issues/problems – facts
What partners will you need to succeed
What interventions have been pursued or
Why would they not work if you had pursued them
What will you do in the 5 years that will make the difference
What resources do you have

11. Additional Licensing - Consultation
Must be robust
Make a clear supported business case
If using questionnaires do so carefully
Consult with all in the affected area and those adjacent to it
Gather responses – you will need to reply to them
Analyse responses objectively

12. Additional Licensing – 5 year program
You only have 5 years
Set out clearly what you hope to achieve and how you will achieve it
Consider the risks
Have a strategy for evaluating and measuring the affect of the scheme from the beginning