At CIH Brighton conference on Thursday, the Regulator of Social Housing’s strategy director Will Perry reported that the body has had an uptick in referrals around basic health and safety compliance and gas servicing.

He stated that the body is learning “just how patchy” landlords’ performance is against the existing regulatory standards.

On these referrals, Perry said “we thought we had those issues cracked 10 years ago”. He added that he thinks “more of those things will be coming out of the woodwork gradually”.