NLA condemns government landlord register as 'unworkable'

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The National Landlords Association (NLA) has criticised the government's proposal for a national register of landlords as "well-meaning but flawed".

An NLA statement on the planned initiative labelled the system of providing details for every property owned to be overly intrusive and burdensome, and suggested that the scheme will be expensive and impractical to enforce.

The landlord licensing system in Scotland was also condemned as a "total failure" both for burdening landlords with cumbersome registration procedures and for failing to punish rogue operators.

David Salusbury, chairman of the NLA, said: "In the current economic climate, the last thing good landlords need is to feel penalised. Reform must be workable for landlords and not damage the private-rented sector."

Earlier this month, the NLA reported that the High Court had dismissed a legal challenge to its merger with the National Federation of Residential Landlords, describing the ruling as an "important step" in creating a unified representative body for landlords and lettings agents.

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