Landlord prosecutions

Adam Bychawski made this Freedom of Information request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council as part of a batch sent to 353 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Adam Bychawski
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Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,

This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I would like to request the following information:

For the financial years 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, please provide:

– The number of landlords prosecuted by the council
– The number of complaints the council received about private rented properties
– The number of civil penalty notices issued against a landlord or letting agent as well as the total annual sum of the fines.

I would like to receive the information in an electronic format. If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad, I would be grateful if you could contact me and provide assistance as to how I could refine the request.

Yours faithfully,

Adam Bychawski

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Dear Adam Bychawski

 

Thank you for your recent FOI enquiry in which you asked:

 

For the financial years 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, please
provide:

 

– The number of landlords prosecuted by the council

 

– The number of complaints the council received about private rented
properties

 

– The number of civil penalty notices issued against a landlord or letting
agent as well as the total annual sum of the fines

 

 

Please see table below in response.

 

  2018/19 2019/20 2020/21
The number of landlords prosecuted by the council 4 1 1
The number of complaints the council received 168 184 115
about private rented properties (See note)
The number of civil penalty notices issued against 0 0 0
a landlord or letting agent as well as the total
annual sum of the fines.

Note: Data up to 2/9/2021

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Lynette Paterson

Principal Information Management Officer

Wirral Council

PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ

 

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Visit our website: [2]www.wirral.gov.uk

 

 

 

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