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There have been a number of changes in the Safer Housing Team in 2019 and this issue aims to keep you up to date. We have also promoted other services that landlords may be interested in.
As always if you have any suggestions or comments we would like to hear from you.
Please contact our Housing Engagement Officer:
Waqar.Mulak@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
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Cllr Linda Woodings is the new Housing Portfolio holder for Nottingham City
Linda Woodings was elected as the councillor for Basford ward in 2015. She is the portfolio holder for Housing, Planning and Heritage and previous to this held the post of portfolio assistant for Community Safety and Communications. Outside of her council role Linda is a trade union officer for the Communication Workers Union and a magistrate on the Nottinghamshire bench. In her free time she is a Run Leader for Notts Women Runners and volunteers at Forest Rec junior park run every week
Cllr Woodings will be speaking and meeting landlords at our upcoming Landlord Breakfast Briefing on 11th July 2019.
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David Walker is the newly appointed Head of Safer Housing and ASB for Nottingham City Council. David grew up in the City of Nottingham and went to school locally. After leaving school he joined Nottinghamshire Police and served for 30 years in a variety of roles.
Following his police career, he joined the local authority as Head of Community Cohesion and Community Safety. As well as tackling local issues, he has also been involved in the peer review of other areas on behalf of the Home Office in relation to Ending Gang and Youth Violence and Prevent, part of the country’s counter-terrorism strategy.
He recognises the importance of housing and ASB issues which are fundamental to the quality of people’s lives. He’s looking forward to working with people from a variety of backgrounds, organisations, both statutory, and non-statutory as well as colleagues, to deliver across both agendas.
With lead responsibility for all matters relating to Safer Housing and ASB he reports directly to Andrew Errington the Director of Community Protection.
David is a Nottingham city resident and will also be speaking at our Landlord Breakfast Briefing on 11th July 2019
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 Private renters in Nottingham are among the best protected from so-called revenge evictions, according to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
Nottingham City Council is among the top ten councils for taking formal action and offering tenants protection from landlords who evict tenants after they raise a complaint.
The council is making use of a power that came in under the Deregulation Act 2015 which means that renters who raise a complaint with their landlord cannot be evicted for six months – but only if the council formally gets involved and issues an improvement notice for certain hazards such as damp, cold, asbestos, over-crowding and poor security, due to neglect or poor management.
The CIEH says that many councils try to resolve matters informally and not all complaints will involve this level of hazard, leaving one tenant in every 20 who complains to their council unprotected. It cites the top councils for taking formal action and offering tenants protection as Tower Hamlets, Merton, Nottingham, Wiltshire, North Somerset, Waltham Forest, Bournemouth, and Cornwall.
Head of Safer Housing and Anti-Social Behaviour Dave Walker said: “We are wholly focused on ensuring that private tenants can raise issues about the state of their property without being penalised either by rent increases or revenge evictions by unscrupulous landlords.
“Wherever possible, when we receive a complaint we will take formal action which rightly gives tenants protection from this sort of thing, while ensuring that the necessary improvements to the property are carried out.”
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