Amongst many recent expressions of concern at the working of the new Rent Act was a week-end speech by Frank Allaun MP. Speaking to his constituents at Salford he said that there was widespread concern because "the Rent Act has gone sour onus", It was not working, as everybody intended it to, to put right the injustices to tenants brought about by the Tory Rent Act of 1957. From his own enquiries, he said that it appeared that in the majority of appeal cases the assessment committees had increased the rent above what the local rent officer had determined as a fair figure. "The rent assessment committees must be clearly told by the Government that the new Rent Act was intended to put an end to the injustices of the 1957 Act, which allowed extortionate increases, and to restore the balance in favour of the tenant" he continued, "Otherwise there might need to be drastic changes in the Act, perhaps laying down that the formula for fixing rents should be attached to the rateable value of the property. Rent Assesanent Committees had not ignored the 'shortage factor' as they were instructed to do by the new Act."
The WeekThe Week Vol. 5, No. 24, 16 June 1966
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