The Housing Enforcers

The Housing Enforcers is a BBC One day-time television series that first aired on 1 September 2014.^[1] The series is hosted by presenter Matt Allwright ^[1] and looks at the work of Local Authority Housing Officers who deal with disrepair and other Environmental Health related matters in the private rented housing sector in the UK.^[1] The series was commissioned by BBC Daytime Controller, Damian Kavanagh and Commissioning Editor, Lindsay Bradbury. The series was produced for the BBC by TwoFour.^[1] The executive producers for Twofour were Rachel Innes-Lumsden and Melanie Leach.^[1]

Series 1 ran for ten forty-five-minute episodes each week day for two weeks from 1 September 2014 until 12 September 2014.^[1] The series was repeated on BBC Two each week day from 29 September 2014 with a superimposed signer.^[2]

The series covered many local authorities work, including the Housing Quality Team at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council.^[3] Officers featured in the first series were Richard Hawkins,^[4][5] Royston Nicholls,^[5][6] Laura Mahiques^[7][8] and Richard Hampton.^[9]

A second series began broadcasting on 4 May 2015. It features a further twenty forty-five minute episodes.^[10] From 20 July 2015, three one-hour compilation episodes were broadcast weekly. A third series began broadcasting on 8 August 2016. It features twenty episodes, each lasting thirty minutes.

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