A couple have been fined £20,000 for failure to licence a property in Brent and to maintain it to an acceptable standard.
Gharmesh and Gita Khatri did not meet the council’s legal requirement to licence a shared accommodation rental property and were prosecuted at Willesden Magistrates Court on 1 March 2016.
The conviction is part of the council’s ‘ramped up’ enforcement drive to ensure that all landlords with unlicensed properties are held to account and are not renting out substandard, squalid and overcrowded accommodation that are blighting our local communities.
All private landlords who let out shared accommodation to 3 or more people with one of them not being related to the others needs to be licenced.
To apply, please go to www.brent.gov.uk/prslicensing or call 020 8937 2384/5.
If you suspect that someone is renting out an unlicensed property in Brent, please report them anonymously by emailing [email protected] or by calling 020 8937 2384/5.
Other recent convictions for unlicensed properties in Brent include: - Ping Sheng who was ordered to pay £5,713 for a property in Wembley - Nilam Haria who was ordered to pay £9,485 for a property in Queensbury
