Pets in Rental Properties Guidance
Produced by the
Strategic Policy, Performance and Population (Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance)
Authored by
Strategic Housing and Regeneration Team
and published on
28 Mar 2025
Prepared internally, no external cost
Summary
The provides guidance to tenants and landlords about allowing tenants to have pets in rental properties.
This responds to the adopted p.70/2024 Amd. which stipulated that The Minister for Housing bring forward, before 31 March 2025, guidance to tenants and landlords so that any tenant of a rental property be permitted to request to keep, or acquire, a pet or pets unless the landlord of the property provides a reasonable reason for not permitting this, and for the criteria determining these reasons to be defined within the relevant guidance.
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