About Us
Members
News
Welcome to the PDPLA
The PDPLA is an association of local landlords which aims to represent, educate and inform its members. We meet monthly to learn and share information important to local landlords and we represent our members needs and their concerns to local and national government. There are approximately 4,000 private landlords in Portsmouth and this doubles when you add in the surrounding area – this is a large group of people, yet historically we are an easy target for the press, for regulation and for taxation. We cannot promise to change that, but together, we can try.
Martin Silman
Chairman, PDPLA
Chairman, PDPLA
Latest News
Breaking News: Man Goes For Walk
What Happened? Apparently, it was nothing to do with Pompey losing to the local team of some small town at Fratton Park last September - on the Monday Matt was having difficulty breathing, it was quickly diagnosed as non-Covid pneumonia an...
Individual HMO Rooms Charged Whole House Council Tax
What Has Changed We have not campaigned against this issue as much as some have wished, as it was quite a specific issue – apparently only affecting previously commercial properties and large developments at the top end of the market, where un...
Are Local Authorities Telling Evicted Tenants To Sit Tight?
The Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 One of the objectives of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 was to force Local Authorities (LAs) to assist tenants in receipt of a Section 21 or Section 8 before they were actually evicted and made homeless....
New Suppliers Added to ‘PDPLA Recommended Suppliers’
New Suppliers and Some You May Have Overlooked Our new solar and EV charger installer is PV Plus – a small Southampton based company that covers the whole area. They have proved excellent with repairs to faulty solar PV systems installed ...
Portsmouth HMO Licence Fees Increase 30%
Good, Bad and More To Do The good news is that the licence charge will now be in 2 parts – the first when you apply (to cover the cost of processing an application) and the second when the licence is granted (to cover the cost of inspecting pro...
Landlord Tenant Mediation Works
Unlike the national initiative where the Ministry of Justice is reported to have spent £250,000 on just 9 cases and appear now to have shelved the idea, the Portsmouth initiative was reviewed at the March meeting of the council Housing Cabinet and co...
The C3/C4 Planning Conundrum
What Are The Rules? In most of the country a landlord can alternate between renting to 3 or more sharers (HMO / C4 use class in planning terms) and an individual, two unrelated persons or a family (C3 use) without planning permission. To contro...
6,000 New Homes Added To Digital Home Network
What Is New? The roll out continues and over 6k homes have been connected across 70 streets/roads in the last 11 weeks. That rate is also planned to continue for the coming 9 months. There have been noticeable expansions in the areas below. Ple...
Small HMO’s: Portsmouth’s Perfect Storm
The Financial Angle Many local landlords with smaller houses came into the market with a simple choice – rent the property to a family for £750-900 per month or furnish it, take on the overhead of managing an HMO and charge £350 per month to ea...
Do Your Tenants Owe Stamp Duty?
What Happened? In Debra's case, she had a tenant who had been with her for over 15 years and if the tenancy had not been updated with a brand new AST in 2018, the tenant would have been liable for stamp duty and, as Debra says, "our tenant leas...
