Advice for private tenants
We are committed to help improve living conditions for tenants in private housing, ensuring that properties are safe and secure. Wherever possible, we will work with landlords and tenants of those properties to advise and inform what action can be taken to ensure that the accommodation standards are achieved and maintained.
Some private landlords deliberately put pressure on their tenants to get them to leave their home. As a private tenant you have legal rights which mean that you cannot be forced out of your home without your landlord first taking you to court.
We have a proactive inspection programme that covers tenant's enquiries and complaints about disrepair in privately rented accommodation. If conditions in the properties inspected are not up to standard the landlord, agent or owner is required to take action to bring them up to standard.