Housing Standards Enforcement Policy

The policy sets out how we will manage enforcement procedures to achieve improvements to housing. 

It lists what property owners, landlords, managing agents and tenants of private sector properties can expect from our officers.

The policy aims to:

• improve the standard of privately rented housing within Woking
• provide a safer and healthier private housing sector
• set out the principles and practices that will be followed when enforcing legislation
• ensure that housing standards enforcement decisions are fair, transparent, consistent and proportionate
• support all private landlords to maintain appropriate standards of accommodation
• incentivise responsible renting
• increase public confidence in the quality and management of accommodation
• hold persons responsible for their actions which are dangerous to the health
• protect the safety and welfare of private sector tenants and local environment