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20/10/08 : Tackling rogue landlords, Meeting students' needs - :
Labour's 12 Point Plan for East Reading
Complaints about rogue landlords buying up properties in East Reading under 'buy-to-let'
and converting them - often without planning permission or building regulation
approval - for letting to students, not caring about refuse collection and other
detrimental impacts on the lives of neighbours, have led Reading & District Labour
Party to put together a 12 Point Plan, a plan aimed both at tackling rogue
landlords and at meeting the needs of students at the University of Reading and Thames Valley University.
Labour's Parliamentary spokesperson for Reading East, Anneliese Dodds, who asked
students at the University's Freshers' Fair to sign a petition urging action against
rogue landlords, says: "The problems caused by crowded, unsafe, and unhygienic
Houses in Multiple Occupation have become acute in some areas of East Reading,
particularly around Cemetery Junction.
"I am delighted that the local Labour Party has acknowledged the scale of these
problems and committed itself to a twelve-point action plan which I think does
cover all the bases.
"Let's hope the plan prompts both Reading Borough Council and the University of
Reading to take the action against rogue landlords that both students and local
residents have been waiting for".
Leader of the Council Jo Lovelock says: "I welcome the work that Anneliese and
others have done to analyse the issues and come up with a plan that the Council
can now discuss not just with the two Universities but also with local communities
who are badly affected by the spread, particularly, of sub-standard HMOs. There are
no quick fixes here but I do believe that working together we will be able to make a real difference."
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