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QUESTIONS
A. Relevant Housing Offences
1. Do you agree that the relevant housing offences described in this document should be regarded as banning order offences unless the offender received an absolute or
conditional discharge?
YES
2. Do you think any of the relevant housing described in this document should NOT be regarded as banning order offences?
NO
4. Do you think any other type of offences for which a local authority has powers to prosecute should be treated as banning order offences?
YES
5. If you have answered YES to the previous question, please specify which other offences should be treated as a banning order offences and give reasons.
Conviction following operation without planning consent.
Rogue landlords and developers operating HMO without planning consent put their tenants at risk and cause distress to neighbouring residents.
6. B. Immigration Offences
Do you agree that letting to someone disqualified from renting because of their immigration status, resulting in an offence under Part 3 of the Immigration Act,
should be regarded as a banning order offence?
YES
7. C. Serious Criminal Offences
Do you agree that any offence involving fraud under the Fraud Act 2006, and for which the offender was sentenced in the Crown Court, should be regarded as a banning order
offence?
YES
8. Do you agree that an offence for which the offender was sentenced in the Crown Court and which involves the production, possession or supply of all classes of
illegal drugs (including poisons) and/or managing premises where drug dealing and/or production takes place, should be regarded as a banning order offence?
YES
9. Do you agree that any offence under Schedule 15 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (specified violent and sexual offences) should be regarded as a banning order offence?
YES
10. Do you think any of the above serious criminal offences described in this document should not be regarded as banning offences ?
NO
12. D. Other Criminal Offences
Do you agree that an offence for which the offender was sentenced in the Crown Court should be regarded as a banning order offence where it was committed against,
or in conjunction with, any person who was residing at the property owned by the offender, other than a person associated with the offender?
YES
13. Do you agree that a link should be maintained between the property and the offence when determining what constitutes a banning order offence?
YES
14. Do you have any further comments about banning order offences ?
YES
The fine that can be exacted for banning offences should be related to the likely profit made during the period that the offence occurred. The limit of £30,000 is far
less than the profit made by some rogue landlords and developers.
February 2017
Alan B Shrank - NORA chairman
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