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Let your house to Fylde council
What Fylde offers private landlords who want the council as their tenant or their letting agent, in the council's own words, with the page to apply on.
Yes. Fylde runs a scheme for private landlords.
The housing advice page lists a scheme to help with deposits to enable access to the privately rented sector and help and advice negotiating with private sector landlords, with no scheme name, amounts or landlord terms. A Help to Rent page (search snippet: bond paid direct to the landlord or agent and secured in a tenancy deposit scheme) returned 404. No leasing, guaranteed rent or management scheme. Contact housing@fylde.gov.uk or 01253 658658.
How these schemes work
Councils have a duty to house people they accept as homeless and a shortage of their own stock, so many lease or manage private landlords' houses instead. The common shapes are a lease of three to five years where the council becomes your tenant and pays rent whether the house is occupied or not, a management arrangement where the council lets and looks after it for you, or a one-off incentive (a cash payment, a deposit guarantee, rent in advance) for taking a council-nominated tenant on a normal tenancy. Terms, rent levels and what they want vary by council and change with demand, so treat every page here as a pointer to the council's own page, not a quote.
Before you sign
Check the same things you would for any let: whether the address is inside an HMO Article 4 area if the council plans to house more than one household, which licensing applies, and what the LHA rate is, since many schemes pay at or just under it. The free HMO Article 4 checker tests any postcode; Kerbio shows all three on the Rightmove listing before you buy.
Source: Fylde council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.