Landlord registration scheme needs tightening up

Shelter Scotland has demanded an urgent review into a registration scheme which is failing to protect tenants from bad landlords. Shelter says a minority of landlords taint the sector with Dickensian treatment of tenants and the charity estimates that one in four properties is still not covered by the scheme introduced three years ago. The report calls for an urgent review of the scheme to ensure it tackles problems such as withheld deposits, poor management, harassment and unlawful eviction.