SADLA has a regular program of meetings. Minutes of previous meetings are listed;

Members Meeting 26th September 2012

Tom Toumazou from the Residential Landlords Association gave a presentation on Legionnaires Disease and the Landlord
Martin Simcock from South Yorkshire Police gave a presentation on security, his presentation can be viewed by clicking the link.
Crime Reduction Presentation
Rich pickings Pamphlet

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Members Meeting 23rd February 2012

John Squires (Revenue and Benefits Laiason Manager of Sheffield City Council) gave a presentation on Welfare Reform and the new universal Credits. His presentation is provided here.
Welfare Reform and Universal Credit presentation to Sadla 23/02/2012
Octopus Investments gave a presentation on EIS (Entrerprise Investment Schemes) These scemes offers good tax planning planning opportunities to property investors [...]

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Members Meeting 3rd May 2012

Chris Heeley Development Manager South of Sheffield City Planning Department gave a presentation on the Article 4 direction with Houses of Multiple Occupation. He gave a background to the Article 4 direction with respect to conversion of a Dwelling House (C3) to HMO (C4). He showed the boundaries on a map developed using information about shared [...]

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Members Meeting 22nd September

The meeting was opened by Peter Swift (Chairman of Sadla) who talked about the changes to the Private Sector Housing.
The Green Deal
Alan Ward of the RLA talked about The Green Deal being offered by the Government and will be introduced some time late in 2012. The 2011 Energy Act is going through secondary legislation, which [...]

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Members Meeting Event 31/03/2011

John Squire (Revenues & Benefits Customer Liaison Manager, Sheffield City Council)and Jessica Griffin (Housing Co-ordinator, Private Rented Solutions, Sheffield City Council) gave an update on the Local Housing Bill, changes to LHA, new ways of letting and opportunities for landlords. (The notes for this presentation are given below).
SCC presentation of Housing Benefit and Private Rented [...]

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Members Meeting Event 19/01/2011

Neil Marsden spoke at our January’s members meeting regarding The Risk Assessment of Residential Hazards.
This was part training, part workshop so that Landlords can be equiped with the tools to carry out their own risk assessment of their properties.
The risk assessment process follows 6 steps to carrying out a risk assessment.  A sample property inspection [...]

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