How is an area picked for selective licensing?
We propose selective licensing in areas where there are one or more of these issues:
- Low demand for houses – with few people wanting to live there
- Significant and persistent problems with antisocial behaviour
- Houses that are in a poor condition
- People who only rent houses for a short period of time
- High levels of crime
- Deprivation – examples include low income, poor health.
Before identifying any areas for selective licensing a ‘hotspot’ mapping exercise was undertaken looking at levels of anti-social behaviour, crime and service requests relating to environmental issues and well as levels of deprivation across the City. This data was overlaid to identify areas where challenges were likely to be concentrated.
Updated statistic for each of the areas can be found on our key statistics page.
View in a new tab, the key statistics for:
- Hyde Road
- The Ladders area
- Ben Street
- The Trinity area
Views were then sought from local Neighbourhood and enforcement teams on boundaries for potential selective licensing areas within these ‘hotspot’ areas based on their local knowledge of the issues within each area.
In September 2020 the Council Executive held a meeting on past selective licensing in order to inform any new selective licensing schemes. The new licensing schemes being considered are in relation to tackling property condition, deprivation and anti-social behaviour. For more details on this you can read point 96 in the report and associated appendix on this topic in the Wednesday, 9 September, 2020, 2pm (manchester.gov.uk) agenda for Council Executive.