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Islington pulls out the stops for Landlords

from "UK Landlord" magazine, May 2007

Putting together a quarterly forum that is both interesting and informative can be a challenge, but, according to Ian Tagg, Islington Procurement & Development Manager, on 21 March, Islington pulled it off with great aplomb.

Ian told UK Landlord: "That evening the London Borough of Islington saw a record attendance for its Landlords' Forum." Islington's landlords were treated to a wellbalanced and helpful presentation by the NLA's MaryAnn Pearce on the Tenancy Deposit Protection Schemes, which came into effect as of 6 April 2007. The subject stimulated a great deal of questions from the floor.

Islington also took the opportunity to launch 2 new publications. There was a presentation on its Empty Property Strategy 2007-2010 by Irna van der Palen, Islington's Private Sector Partnerships Manager. Islington is looking to build on its 2003-2006 strategy by developing and improving its empty property database, to have a strategic focus on tackling empty properties and to provide effective pathways to bring them back into use. The strategy was endorsed by Desmond Kilroy of the Empty Homes Agency, who commended Islington's innovative work in this field and the integral part the strategy will have on tackling empty property in Islington. Ian says the Borough will also have a new quarterly landlords' newsletter, which Islington hopes will act as a thread into smaller landlords to provide interesting articles, valuable information on good practice and changes in legislation.

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