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Keith Williams

@KeithWilliamsEX

Private Sector Housing manager for @exetercouncil. Tweeting about advice & housing standards in private rented accommodation.

 Exeter
exeter.gov.uk
Joined March 2014
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Rogue landlord database goes live localgov.co.uk/Rogue-landlor… via @localgoveditors
Rogue landlord database goes live

Rogue landlord database goes live

A new national database which will enable councils to share information about rogue landlords went live today as part of an effort to crackdown on illegal practices in the private rented sector.

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Housing benefit to be restored for 18 to 21-year-olds after fears young people will be made homeless independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
Housing benefit to be restored for 18 to 21-year-olds after fears young people will be made homeless

Housing benefit to be restored for 18 to 21-year-olds after fears young people will be made homeless

‘Young people claiming housing benefit are doing so because they don’t have a choice about whether to live at home’

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Councils given power to double council tax on empty homes localgov.co.uk/Councils-give… via @localgoveditors
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SEVEN important law changes landlords need to know about >>> ow.ly/2KaY30j7yCD #FutureRentingNorth #lettings #property #agents #landlords #Manchester
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Call of the Week: General Data Protection Regulation and what it means for landlords ow.ly/Dsyz30j4Svd #GDPR #landlords #property
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The Renting Minefield Part V - Walking the tightrope takes place on the 16th May and is a free event open to all private landlords, letting agents and anyone interested in letting property. The event is free and you can book tickets here: socsi.in/RentingMinefield_VM…
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Energy efficiency: Less than ONE month to go until new rules come in ow.ly/zmzj30iMtQv #MEES #energy #EPC
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The Renting Minefield Part V - Walking the tightrope takes place on the 16th May and is a free event open to all private landlords, letting agents and anyone interested in letting property. The event is free and you can book tickets here: socsi.in/RentingMinefield_w7…
Image from Exeter City Council (@ExeterCouncil)
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ITV Wales News
@ITVWales28 Feb 2018
"It's hard to sleep in the cold. Because you're afraid that if you go to sleep, you might not wake up". As temperatures plummet to well below freezing, rough sleepers are being urged to seek help and support.
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Salford City's match was called off, so they donated all the food to the homeless indy100.com/article/salford-…
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Incredible footage of the 1982 Welsh blizzard ❄️36 hours of continuous snowfall ❄️Drifts up to 6m high ❄️Temperatures lower than -20°C ❄️M4 brought to a standstill
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Chance to have your say as government plans to quiz 100,000 landlords on state of the PRS news.rla.org.uk/governments-…
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Fuel poverty kills thousands every year charity reveals localgov.co.uk/Fuel-poverty-… via @localgoveditors

Fuel poverty kills thousands every year, charity reveals

The UK has the sixth-highest rate of excess winter deaths in Europe with thousands dying preventable deaths every year, fuel poverty charity finds.

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BBC News - Landlords who say 'no DSS' breaking equality laws bbc.co.uk/news/education-429…
Landlords who say 'no DSS' breaking equality laws

Landlords who say 'no DSS' breaking equality laws

"No DSS" landlords who turn down housing benefit claimants risk breaching equality laws.

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Court rules councils cannot use selective licensing to impose safety standards localgov.co.uk/Court-rules-c… via @localgoveditors

Court rules councils cannot use selective licensing to impose safety standards

The Court of Appeal has today ruled councils cannot use selective licensing conditions to impose new standards on private rented homes.

localgov.co.uk
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Keith Williams retweeted
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BBC Panorama@BBCPanorama21 Feb 2018
More than 24,000 households were evicted from rented homes last year without being told why. Panorama meets families forced out in Evicted For No Reason, 8.30pm on @BBCOne.
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Just because it's veg doesn't mean it's good. We need strong rules on sustainability and safety for everything we eat. We have neither sufficient information nor power as consumers: ecowatch.com/europes-dirty-l…
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Eight prototypes for Trump's wall near US-Mexico border pass military tests for impenetrability inhabitat.com/eight-prototyp…

eight-prototypes-for-trumps-wall-near-us-mexico-border-pass-militar...

Filed under the category of depressing news, eight prototypes for Trump\'s border wall have been erected at the US-Mexico border in San Diego\'s Otay Mesa area for testing. Over the past few months...

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Developers sitting on more than 420000 homes with planning permission localgov.co.uk/Developers-si… via @localgoveditors

Developers sitting on more than 420,000 homes with planning permission

The backlog of homes that have been given planning permission but are still waiting to be built has increased by almost 16% in the last year, new analysis has revealed today.

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