ATRO

What is ATRO?
ATRO represents Tenancy Relations Officers and other officers working in local authorities in England and Wales who enforce the Protection From Eviction Act 1977 to prevent unlawful eviction and harassment in the private rented sector.
ATRO aims to promote best practice in the use of local authority powers and duties to enforce rights and maintain standards in private sector housing in England and Wales.

ATRO will endeavor to achieve this by:

1. Providing support and training to individual members to ensure high standards of:

advice, mediation and facilitation
enforcement
education and training
monitoring

2. Campaigning:

on issues relating to private sector housing
to raise awareness and encourage use of local authority enforcement powers.

Prosecution Update

Details of four recent Protection From Eviction Act prosecutions are now on the new "Prosecutions" page.

Law Commission report published

The Law Commission published it's latest report, "Housing: Proportionate Dispute Resolution" on 13 May 2008. This report is the second part of the Commission's series on housing law reform. The proposals on tenure reform were published in "Renting Homes: The Final Report" (May 2006) and the series will be completed with the forthcoming publication of the results of the "Ensuring Responsible Letting project. The latest report can be viewed click here to see report

Welcome!

Welcome to the new ATRO website. If you are an ATRO member you should now have received your ID and password to enable you to register on the members Forum. If you haven't received your details please contact Andrew Greathead on 0121 464 9889. Members can use the Forum to share good practice, raise queries and issues and post details of prosecutions. If you wish to join ATRO please see the "Members" page.

Major Government announcement

The Government has announced a review of the Private Rented Sector will take place this year. The review will be lead by The Centre for Housing Policy at The University of York. ATRO will be particpating in the review.