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Investigating unlicensed properties
Half-day technical workshop
Overview
Identifying and investigating unlicensed properties is rarely straightforward. This workshop will provide you with essential knowledge and skills for greater successful outcomes for investigations of private rented sector (PRS) properties requiring a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) or Selective Licence.
We will examine relevant legislation, intelligence sources and methods, practical processes, offences and defences and ways to manage them. Case studies based on real events encountered during professional practice will also be explored.
Objectives
- Relevant parts of licensing legislation, including Housing Act 2004, will be explained and examined
- A range of intelligence-led approaches for identifying unlicensed properties will be shared, covering intelligence gathering and collaboration
- Various tools under legislation for gathering information on suspected unlicensed PRS properties will be presented
- A step-by-step process, based on the Bond Solon method, will be set out for investigating unlicensed PRS properties
- There will be case studies and group discussion to reinforce best practice, evidence gathering, ways to manage defences for relevant offences, and how to choose which sanction to use
Learning outcomes:
- Become confident in the identification and investigation of properties requiring a relevant licence
- Gain new skills, from investigating to gathering evidence, for possible offences linked to unlicensed properties
- Understand and recall the legal framework for identifying and investigating unlicensed properties
Who should attend:
- Environmental Health Officers and Environmental Health Practitioners
- Local authority licensing enforcement officers (Housing Act 2004 and Housing and Planning Act 2016)
- Local authority private sector housing, housing licensing managers and supervisors
What past delegates thought:
- "Discussion with other attendees/case studies Q&A with trainer was useful"
- "All of it, but the Q and A always useful."
CPD: 3 hours and 30 minutes
John Easey, Environmental Health Practitioner
John has worked in the field of housing standards for the last 20+ years, both in private practice providing consultancy, survey and training services, and more recently as an enforcement officer within local authority private sector housing teams. He has also been a member of the English Housing Survey team since 2001 and has used the HHSRS in survey work from 2002.
He has been involved in training local authority and housing association officers on the provisions of the Housing Act 2004, either through the various initial government funded training schemes or by direct commission from clients, since the mid-2000s.
He recently retired from his part time role in a local authority as a senior private sector housing officer with responsibilities including general complaints, HMO licensing and enforcement, caravan site licensing, DFGs, and the development of policy and procedures, to concentrate on his housing consultancy practice and on training provision.
Date
Time
Venue
Online, Zoom
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Price
CIEH member: £90
Affiliate member: £145
Non-member: £145
Online payments are card only. For purchase orders, email [email protected] (subject to your employer having this facility in place with CIEH). For help, call 020 7827 5800.
