In February Slocombe, then 33, of Delhi Street, Swansea, was jailed for six years for carrying out dangerous construction work on properties in Cardiff, Bridgend and Swansea.
The £400,000 scam cost its nine victims a total of more than £547,000 when the costs of correcting its dangerous operation were added, Cardiff council said., external.
He pleaded guilty to being involved in a fraudulent business between March 2021 and May 2023, with one charge against him and one against his company LSP Developments.
Slocombe was on bail at the Crown Court at the time the offenses were committed.
This was the third time he had been sentenced to prison for crimes committed in 2015.
That same year he was jailed for 43 months for three fraud offences, and in 2023 he was given five years and five months for defrauding seven families of £150,000.
In February, Cardiff Crown Court heard Slocombe called himself Lee Lewis to avoid disclosure of his previous convictions and twice took a fake and unqualified gas engineer to sites, leaving them in a “potentially fatal condition”.
He was also disciplined for criminal conduct., externalbanning him from carrying out construction, renovation or gardening work in the UK for life, and disqualifying him from serving as a company director until 2031.
Ingram said the plans were a “good step in the right direction” as the “power imbalance is very large” between people wanting to renovate their homes and builders.
“There needs to be better protection, there has to be,” she added.
“I expect the government to take responsibility if the project goes wrong if I use the database.
“I don’t think traders will register and the reality is they don’t need to.”