Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

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Dear Dan Wilson Craw

FOI/10154

Subject: FOI - Landlord licensing

 

Freedom of Information request or EIR

 

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Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[email address]

 

Dear Dan Wilson Craw

Request FOI/10154

Further to your request received on 25/06/2024, I confirm that the Council
has now considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please see answers to your questions in the table below:

Dear Croydon Borough Council,

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request
information regarding landlord licensing.

Please can you inform me:
 

  2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024
How many N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A HMO – 1 HMO – 7 HMO - 9 HMO - 12 HMO - 15
landlord SL - 2 SL - 1
licences has
the council
revoked in
the last 5
years?
Please
provide a
breakdown by
financial
year,
starting
with
2019-20.
How many N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A a) 175 a) 142 a) 148 a) 112 a) 78
properties b) 2790 b) 1308 b) N/A b) N/A b) N/A
have been c) N/A c) N/A c) N/A c) N/A c) N/A
licensed in
the borough/
council at
31 March in
each of the
last 5 years
(2020-24)?
Please
provide a
breakdown of
the
following
licenses:
a) Mandatory
b) Selective
c)
Additional
3) What N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A a)
estimate has b) N/A
the council c) N/A
made of the
number of
licensable
rental
properties
that the
council has
not received
a licence
application
for? Please
provide a
breakdown of
the
following
licences:
a) Mandatory
b) Selective
c)
Additional
4) How many                   a) 706
rented b) N/A
properties c) N/A
are
currently
licensed in
the borough,
as of June
2024? Please
provide a
breakdown of
the
following
licenses
a) Mandatory
b)Selective
c)
Additional
5) How many N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
a)
prosecutions
and b) civil
penalties
has the
council
successfully
pursued for
each of the
following
housing
related
offences in
the last 10
years?:
i) Unlawful a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0
eviction or b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0
harassment,
under s.1
Protection
from
Eviction Act
1977.
ii) Using or a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0
threatening b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0
violence for
securing
entry into
premises,
under s.6
Criminal Law
Act 1977.
iii) Failure a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 2 a) 0 a) 0 a) 1 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0
to comply b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 1 b) 0 b) 0 b) 1 b) 1 b) 0 b) 0
with an
improvement
notice,
under s.30
Housing Act
2004.
iv) Failure a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0
to comply b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0
with a
prohibition
order, under
s.32 Housing
Act 2004.
v) Having a) 1 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0
control of, b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 2 b) 0
or managing,
an
unlicensed
house in
multiple
occupation,
or breaching
a condition
of a
license,
under s.72
Housing Act
2004.
vi) Having a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 4 a) 0 a) 1 a) 0 a) 0
control of, b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 1 b) 21 b) 11 b) 21 b) 27 b) 0 b) 0
or managing,
an
unlicensed
property, or
breaching a
condition of
a license,
under s.95
Housing Act
2004.
vii) Failure a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 1 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0
to comply b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0
with HMO
management
regulations,
under s.234
Housing Act
2004.
viii)Failure 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
to comply
with
overcrowding
notices or
fire safety
regulations
(HMOs only),
under s.139
Housing Act
2004 and
Art.32
Regulatory
Reform (Fire
Safety)
Order 2005.
ix) Breach 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
of gas
safety
regulations,
under s.33
Health and
Safety at
Work etc Act
1974.
x) Breach of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
right to
rent
provisions
(criminal
prosecutions
only), under
ss.33A and
33B
Immigration
Act 2014 (as
amended by
s.39
Immigration
Act 2016.
xi) a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0 a) 0
Requiring a b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0 b) 0
relevant
person to
make a
prohibited
payment
(criminal
offence
only), under
s.12 Tenant
Fees Act
2019.
6. How many N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0
landlords
has the
council
given a
landlord
banning
order in the
last 5
years?
Please
provide a
breakdown by
financial
year,
starting
2019-20.

 

 

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Writing:     Information Team

London Borough of Croydon

Bernard Weatherill House

Floor 7 - Zone B

8 Mint Walk

Croydon, CR0 1EA

 

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decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

 

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Cheshire, SK9 5AF

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

Bernard Wetherill House,

Mint Walk,

Croydon,

CR0 1EA

 

 

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