Next meeting · Autumn 2026

Wednesday
21 October 2026

6pm – 8pm
County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff Bay CF10 4UW
Level 1, Committee Rooms 1–3

Open to every Cardiff landlord

  • Your Property, Your Legacy: Inheritance Tax and the 2027 changes

    Charlene Lock APFS

    Chartered Financial Planner, Lock Financial Services

    How Inheritance Tax applies to buy-to-let and commercial portfolios, the new pension death-benefit rules from April 2027, and ways to plan an efficient transfer of wealth.

    lockfs.co.uk ↗

  • Supporting Landlords: A Partnership Approach

    Cllr Lynda Thorne

    Cabinet Member for Housing & Communities, Cardiff Council

    The Council’s strategic direction for the private rented sector, and how it is working with landlords to tackle homelessness in Cardiff.

    Councillor profile ↗

  • Update from the Chair

    Douglas Haig

    Douglas Haig on what’s changing for landlords in Wales, followed by networking

About the forum

Run by Cardiff landlords, for Cardiff landlords

The Cardiff Landlord Forum began as the local authority’s channel for talking with the landlords in its area. It has since become independent of Cardiff Council and is run by volunteer landlords.

We exist to educate and inform landlords, to give the Council and other bodies a way to hear landlords’ views, and to give landlords a shared voice on the issues that affect their homes and their business.

Everyone who owns rental property in the Cardiff Council area is a member. The more people who come, the louder that voice is.

  • When Quarterly, on a weekday evening, 6pm – 8pm
  • Where County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff Bay CF10 4UW
  • Format Guest speakers from the Council and the lettings world, an Update from the Chair on Welsh and UK policy, then networking
  • Cost Free
  • Topics Renting Homes (Wales) Act, Rent Smart Wales, HMO licensing and planning, tax and finance, energy efficiency, fire safety, possession
  • Beyond meetings The committee represents landlords on Council working groups and housing strategy consultations

Past meetings

Ten years of speakers and updates

2026 2 meetings
  • 17 June Ian Derrick, Bank of England (Deputy Agent for Wales). Cristina Grilo-Stoica, Optimo. Chair’s update on the new Welsh Government’s housing pledges.
  • 28 January Jamie Morgan, JM Pest Solutions. Fraser Calderwood Duncan, IKEA for Business. Chair’s update: Warm Homes Plan and EPC C by 2030, Renters’ Rights Act, Renting Homes (Wales) Act three years on. Committee election.
2025 5 meetings
  • 24 September Simon George, Welsh Water (metering and empty-property charges). Hannah Jenkins, Senedd. Richard Pike, Recycling Storage Solutions. Jack Sully, JCN Garden Services.
  • 23 July James Banks, Planning Demystified. Kirk Marsh, Marsh Decorating. Chair’s update on the Building Safety (Wales) Bill.
  • 24 May Sarah Evans, Seraph Group, on the DMCC Act and sanctions checks. Gill Owens, NRLA: “Navigating changes in the PRS”.
  • 26 March Steve Phillips, Currys Business. Charlene Lock on pensions. Craig Baker, Dentons Pension Management, on SIPPs and SSASs for commercial property.
  • 29 January Rhona Dyer, Honey Legal, on estate planning. Andy Gardner on rates and lending.
2024 2 meetings
  • 22 May Howard Humphries, Nacro, on leasing. David Bennett, Cornerstone Insurance.
  • 26 March Fire safety evening: David Hargreaves and Paul Wilson, FAST. Jonathan Carpanini, South Wales Fire & Rescue. Joanne Danielsen, RSP, on sprinklers.
2023 4 meetings
  • 26 July NRLA-led session with Gill Owens and Steve Bletsoe: Fair Rents and the Right to Adequate Housing.
  • 24 May Ailidh Durie, Cardiff Council Prevention. John Ireland, Legacy Wills.
  • 22 March Renting Homes (Wales) Act walkthrough and Chair’s update.
  • 25 January Kathryn Williams, KEW Planning. Fred Jones, Cardiff Council. Morgan Stewart, GPS Financial. Sarah Evans on the Renting Homes (Wales) Act.
2022 3 meetings
  • 14 September Two guest speakers and the Chair’s update.
  • 12 July All-Wales NRLA webinar ahead of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act.
  • 17 May First in-person meeting for two years. Renting Homes (Wales) Act, building safety, new councillors.
2021 2 meetings, online
  • 16 March Chair’s update, online.
  • 13 January Lockdown and the PRS, possession reform, NRLA research and campaigning.
2020 4 meetings
  • 16 September Online. Coronavirus, possession changes, Renting Homes (Amendment) Bill, Arbed energy grants, EWS1.
  • 21 July Online. Possession, the housing market reopening, the student sector.
  • 13 May Our first online meeting.
  • 15 January Terry Mason, Housing Hand. Catherine Docherty, Housing First (Salvation Army).
2019 6 meetings
  • 26 November Frazer Hawtin, Safeguard Electrical, Fire & Security. Sara Reid-Danks, Gypsy & Traveller Wales. AGM and election.
  • 18 September Nathan Tobin and Reema Sabbuba, James Douglas: the fundamentals of lettings. Hugh Evans, Transport for Wales.
  • 16 July Howard Bowes, Harvey Bowes Financial Services. Mathew Norman, RLA, on repossession reform.
  • 16 May Cardiff Council on end-of-term waste. Chris Birch, Apollo Wales.
  • 26 March Hannah Jinks, Cardiff Council Housing First. Debbie Davies, TDS, on deposit disputes.
  • 23 January Huw Gronow, Cardiff Council, on the Housing (Wales) Act 2014. Sean Hughes, Comprehensive Tax Planning.
2014 – 2018 25+ meetings
  • 2018 Cllr Caro Wild and James Moore on planning. Huw Gronow on HMO management regulations. TPAS Cymru. IKEA on dressing a property to let. High Court Enforcement Group. RSPCA on renting with pets.
  • 2017 Local election hustings. South Wales Fire & Rescue after Grenfell. Open Doors (Tai Pawb). City Energy. Welsh Water. HSJ Accountants on tax changes.
  • 2016 RLA & Homes for Wales Senedd hustings, with over 130 landlords. Rent Smart Wales launch with Anne Rowland. Universal Credit. Kilsby & Williams on Section 24.
  • 2014 – 15 Renting Homes Bill. Mortgage interest relief. To Let board rules. Pest control. Water-bill liability. HMO planning guidance.

Slides from past meetings are being moved across from the old site.

Committee

Who runs the forum

Douglas Haig

Chair

Gillian Owens

Committee · NRLA

Ian McAllister

Committee

Michael Whelan

Committee

Committee members are elected at the AGM. Any landlord renting property in Cardiff who has been to three meetings can stand. Ask at a meeting if you’d like to get involved.

Contact

Hear about the next meeting

We email invitations a few weeks before each meeting, with the speakers and venue. Join the mailing list at any meeting, or ask to be added.

If you’d like to speak at, or sponsor, a future meeting, get in touch with the committee. Invited speakers can find everything they need on the speaker information page.