Tenant protection plans rejected by House of Lords

by Aaron Strutt

Sep 09 2015

Earlier this year the government announced plans for landlords to install alarms in approximately 4.4 million households, suggesting the move would prevent 30 deaths and nearly 1,400 injuries each year.

However, with the intended implementation less than three weeks away, the final agreement was rejected by the House of Lords. It was decided that the government had not done enough to inform landlords of the impending changes and that the legislation was poorly worded.

Ian Fletcher, director of policy at the British Property Federation, said: “We have been fully supportive of the campaign to make smoke alarms compulsory in private rented properties and are, therefore, extremely disappointed to see this unnecessary delay in proceedings.”