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The National Landlords Association exists to protect and promote the interests of residential landlords operating in the private rented sector throughout the country. With its head office in Westminster, the NLA lobbies central government increasingly effectively, and carries weight with local authorities. The NLA provides a range of benefits and services to individual members, including a telephone advice line, regular journals, and more. When in 1973, she founded the Small Landlords Association, now the National Landlords Association (NLA), Lillian Cline envisaged an organisation to represent residential landlords' views on the need for easing the restrictive legislation which in post-war Britain had hindered the development of the private rented sector. To this end lobbying of government has been undertaken as a core activity since the NLA's inception.Constructive and cordial relations have been developed with a number of other agencies, for example the Law Commission. Services for member landlords followed, notably the telephone advice line and the bi-monthly newsletter. Today, there are over 13,000 individual members countrywide living or carrying on their business as landlords in England, Scotland and Wales, and some in Northern Ireland. On 25th June 2003 the unincorporated Small Landlords Association was converted into a company limited by guarantee and retitled the National Landlords Association. The most visible change is the employment of a team of salaried professionals to perform core tasks. Whilst we do not anticipate significant changes in the way benefits are provided to members, you should notice improvements as we seek to broaden the range of services available. At the same time improvements have been made in our ability to lobby government. Policy staff direct their energies and widely-respected expertise to responding to the steady stream of proposed regulatory and legislative measures that government appears determined to impose upon the private-rented sector under the guise of 'improvements'. These changes put us in good shape to face the opportunities and challenges of the future. Never has there been a greater need for an effective voice to promote and protect the interests of residential landlords. The NLA will continue playing a key role in providing that voice.

 

Address: 22-26 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TJ
Telephone: 020 7840 8900
Fax: 0871 247 7535
Website: http://www.landlords.org.uk/