Renewed calls for Bristol rent controls 'to stop greedy landlords' View 4 Images

A Government bill to give more powers to local councils and regional authorities should include the power for local councils like Bristol to trial controlling how much rent private landlords can charge tenants . That’s the view of one of the city’s MPs, who has called on ministers to include the option in the Devolution Bill that’s currently going through Parliament .

With Bristol the second most expensive place in Britain to be a renter, Carla Denyer said the new bill to give more powers to local communities was an opportunity to see if the much-talked-about idea of rent controls could work in Bristol.

Despite a cross-party agreement at City Hall back in 2023 for Bristol to ask the Government for t

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