The UK government has tabled the long awaited renter’s reform bill, the first step to change in England’s troubled private rented sector. The bill’s headline reform is to end “no fault” evictions, something Theresa May announced plans to do when she was prime minister in 2019.
But while it proposes fundamental reform and greater protection for renters, at the same time it gives landlords a host of new powers – including to evict.
