Issue - meetings

That the Council -

(a)           notes the role of the council in protecting tenants in the private rented housing sector through licensing, registration and enforcement;

(b)           agrees that everyone living in the rented sector should be able to have an expectation of safe, secure and good-quality housing, and that this is undermined where landlords fail to meet their legal obligations;

(c)           instructs the Chief Officer - Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to report to a future committee on the operation of the private landlord registration and HMO licensing schemes, and short term lets legislation preparedness in Aberdeen. This should include the action taken when complaints are received about unlicensed landlords, and options to ensure that the public are aware of how to raise complaints.

The Council resolved:-

to refer the notice of motion to the Operational Delivery Committee in the first instance, noting that it may also need to be considered by the Licensing Committee thereafter.

The Council had before it a notice of motion by Councillor Hutchison in the following terms:-

          "That the Council -

(a)       notes the role of the Council in protecting tenants in the private rented housing sector through licensing, registration and enforcement;

(b)       agrees that everyone living in the rented sector should be able to have an expectation of safe, secure and good-quality housing, and that this is undermined where landlords fail to meet their legal obligations; and

(c)       instructs the Chief Officer - Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to report to a future committee on the operation of the private landlord registration and HMO licensing schemes, and short term lets legislation preparedness in Aberdeen. This should include the action taken when complaints are received about unlicensed landlords, and options to ensure that the public are aware of how to raise complaints.”

The Council resolved:-

to refer the notice of motion to the Operational Delivery Committee in the first instance, noting that it may also need to be considered by the Licensing Committee thereafter.