No, DASH Landlord Accreditation cannot guarantee any discounts or reduced licensing fees.

DASH is set up to recognise good landlords by giving a quality mark along with useful training and support over a 3 year period.  There are a number of reasons why accreditation isn’t granted straight away and therefore we cannot guarantee a timescale to complete the process.  Landlord must be fully Accredited before any discount can be applied. A typical application takes between 2-6 weeks to reach full accreditation.

A useful example:

A landlord in Nottingham applies for DASH landlord accreditation and uses their DASH membership number on the Selective License application with Nottingham City Council to let them know that they are apart of the accreditation scheme.

Nottingham reviews the license application within 3 weeks and ask that the accreditation with DASH be confirmed.

However, the landlord has paid the DASH membership fee, but not completed the training or had a property visit by DASH. So the landlord is still working towards the accreditation, and it has not yet been awarded.

So Nottingham City Council does not apply the discount and charges the landlord the full license fee.

The landlord doesn’t complete the accreditation process in time and therefore doesn’t benefit from the reduced license fee.