Your local council has significant powers in relation to private renting. The council has a legal powers duty to intervene when private landlords behave badly, and when conditions in a privately rented home are poor. Councils are also responsible for property licensing schemes in their borough. The local authority (the council) also has powers in relation to letting agents.
In 19 of London’s 33 boroughs, 25% or more of the population are private renters. Some councils are better than others at exercising their powers to meet private renters’ needs. Find out more about what your council is doing below. If it’s not enough, please arrange a meeting with your local Councillor to discuss it?
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster