IT’S about time in Bournemouth that agencies got too grips with landlords and start having an effect on the quality of life for tenants.

Some landlords want to spend time in some of their run-down properties and say ‘would I want my son or daughter living in a place like this’?

Most definitely not.

It seems there are no controls over Housing Association or private landlords, yet we hear of forums which are basically talking shops and nothing else.

Some build empires and lose touch with reality when they are much more effective with a hands on approach.

Bad repairs, vital documents absent and yet where is the voice for the tenant?

Many massage their way through, saying the right words and not implementing what they agreed. As their bank balance inflates and they live in affluent neighbours their properties of such bad quality affect the neighbourhoods which seek recovery.

And let’s not donate to local events or charities or as one housing association did some years ago spending £10,000 in putting on a firework display in Christchurch.

That money should be reinvested in your housing infrastructure.

So I make no apologies for seeing it as it is being a tenant of both private and housing associations but its about time some landlords reviewed their operation and delivered quality housing in Bournemouth.

NIGEL GILLESPIE, Ascham Road, Bournemouth