Here:
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/desh/consul...omesbillen.pdf
There's a lot of "our proposals will save the world" type marketing guff at the start, but worth a read.
Surprisingly sensible, and based on the Law Commission proposals from 2006.
It is reform of tenure arrangements, and the umpteen different types of contract (Secure, Introductory, Rent Act, blah blah) would be reduced to a "Standard Contract" and "Secure Contract".
They are not as good on Landlords being made to police tenant behaviour, doing things about nuisance, and possibly passing LLs the responsibility for make a premises more secure (there is a lovely buzzword straight out of Hollywood War Films which I think is "target-hardening") when someone makes an accusation of domestic violence and the alleged perpetrator is thrown out. This seems to have got into the proposals but not the draft contract.
Lots of good detailed ideas, such as making it easier for one tenant to "leave"a joint tenancy, tenancies for 16 an 17 year olds being addressed etc.
Illustrative contracts here:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/housingan...racts/?lang=en
(Dear God - the standard one is 26 pages and is full of smileycons.)
Repairing obligations are made explicit in the contract with some bits missing I think, and there are also some conflicts with Common Law Rights. LLs consent is explicitly required for T to change locks, for example.
One problem is that special interest groups are shoe-horning their own predelictions into the standard contract.
More here:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/housingan...gbill/?lang=en
They have missed the opportunity to do something useful with Licensing or Agent Regulation, though.
ML
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/desh/consul...omesbillen.pdf
There's a lot of "our proposals will save the world" type marketing guff at the start, but worth a read.
Surprisingly sensible, and based on the Law Commission proposals from 2006.
It is reform of tenure arrangements, and the umpteen different types of contract (Secure, Introductory, Rent Act, blah blah) would be reduced to a "Standard Contract" and "Secure Contract".
They are not as good on Landlords being made to police tenant behaviour, doing things about nuisance, and possibly passing LLs the responsibility for make a premises more secure (there is a lovely buzzword straight out of Hollywood War Films which I think is "target-hardening") when someone makes an accusation of domestic violence and the alleged perpetrator is thrown out. This seems to have got into the proposals but not the draft contract.
Lots of good detailed ideas, such as making it easier for one tenant to "leave"a joint tenancy, tenancies for 16 an 17 year olds being addressed etc.
Illustrative contracts here:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/housingan...racts/?lang=en
(Dear God - the standard one is 26 pages and is full of smileycons.)
Repairing obligations are made explicit in the contract with some bits missing I think, and there are also some conflicts with Common Law Rights. LLs consent is explicitly required for T to change locks, for example.
One problem is that special interest groups are shoe-horning their own predelictions into the standard contract.
More here:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/housingan...gbill/?lang=en
They have missed the opportunity to do something useful with Licensing or Agent Regulation, though.
ML