diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 7ab9b45ee463cfc0c8524b5843828689935484d3..3594565cb10e21e60ee06db8205bc2763f1c7d59 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ linting:
   script:
     - echo $(ls -d ./dist/*.whl | grep $CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA)
     - python3 -m pip install --extra-index-url https://nexus.engageska-portugal.pt/repository/pypi/simple -U $(ls -d ./dist/*.whl | grep $CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA)
-    - make lint-check
+    - make lint
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - ./build
diff --git a/.make/lint.mk b/.make/lint.mk
index ca8e614bef0256efff7a3a21d5ae578645f3eede..318a1cd587934aa71ed9e6a2a7ba5a3b105a666a 100644
--- a/.make/lint.mk
+++ b/.make/lint.mk
@@ -1,25 +1,19 @@
 
-_lint-install:  # install requirements for linting
+_format-lint-install:  # install requirements for code formatting and checking
 	python3 -m pip install -r requirements-lint.txt
 
-_lint-format-apply: _lint-install  # apply code formatting
-	black src/ tests/
-
-_lint-format-check: _lint-install  # check code has been formatted
-	black --check src/ tests/
-
-_lint-other-checks: _lint-install  # all other checks
-	mkdir -p build/reports
-	pylint --output-format=parseable src/ska_tango_base | tee build/code_analysis.stdout
-	pylint --output-format=pylint2junit.JunitReporter src/ska_tango_base > build/reports/linting.xml
+.PHONY: _format-lint-install
 
-.PHONY: _lint-install _lint-format-apply _lint-format-check _lint-other-checks
 
+format: _format-lint-install  # apply code formatting
+	black src/ tests/
 
-# Check code has been formatted, then check everything else
-lint-check: _lint-format-check _lint-other-checks
+lint: _format-lint-install
+	mkdir -p build/reports
+	- python3 -m flake8 --format=junit-xml --output-file=build/reports/linting.xml src/ tests/
+	python3 -m flake8 --statistics --show-source src/ tests/
 
-# Actively format code, then check everything else
-lint: _lint-format-apply _lint-other-checks
+# Format code then lint it
+format-lint: format lint
 
-.PHONY: lint-check lint
+.PHONY: format lint format-lint
diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
deleted file mode 100644
index ddbbd9ecc51865295421a6d8a49fdfd06e0633de..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,489 +0,0 @@
-[MASTER]
-
-# A comma-separated list of package or module names from where C extensions may
-# be loaded. Extensions are loading into the active Python interpreter and may
-# run arbitrary code.
-extension-pkg-whitelist=
-
-# Add files or directories to the blacklist. They should be base names, not
-# paths.
-ignore=CVS
-
-# Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the blacklist. The
-# regex matches against base names, not paths.
-ignore-patterns=
-
-# Python code to execute, usually for sys.path manipulation such as
-# pygtk.require().
-#init-hook=
-
-# Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will auto-detect the
-# number of processors available to use.
-jobs=0
-
-# Control the amount of potential inferred values when inferring a single
-# object. This can help the performance when dealing with large functions or
-# complex, nested conditions.
-limit-inference-results=100
-
-# List of plugins (as comma separated values of python modules names) to load,
-# usually to register additional checkers.
-# load-plugins=
-
-# Pickle collected data for later comparisons.
-persistent=yes
-
-# Specify a configuration file.
-#rcfile=
-
-# When enabled, pylint would attempt to guess common misconfiguration and emit
-# user-friendly hints instead of false-positive error messages.
-suggestion-mode=yes
-
-# Allow loading of arbitrary C extensions. Extensions are imported into the
-# active Python interpreter and may run arbitrary code.
-unsafe-load-any-extension=no
-
-
-[MESSAGES CONTROL]
-
-# Only show warnings with the listed confidence levels. Leave empty to show
-# all. Valid levels: HIGH, INFERENCE, INFERENCE_FAILURE, UNDEFINED.
-confidence=
-
-# Disable the message, report, category or checker with the given id(s). You
-# can either give multiple identifiers separated by comma (,) or put this
-# option multiple times (only on the command line, not in the configuration
-# file where it should appear only once). You can also use "--disable=all" to
-# disable everything first and then reenable specific checks. For example, if
-# you want to run only the similarities checker, you can use "--disable=all
-# --enable=similarities". If you want to run only the classes checker, but have
-# no Warning level messages displayed, use "--disable=all --enable=classes
-# --disable=W".
-disable=C,
-        R,
-        W,
-        I
-
-# Enable the message, report, category or checker with the given id(s). You can
-# either give multiple identifier separated by comma (,) or put this option
-# multiple time (only on the command line, not in the configuration file where
-# it should appear only once). See also the "--disable" option for examples.
-enable=unreachable,
-       duplicate-key,
-       unnecessary-semicolon,
-       global-variable-not-assigned,
-       unused-variable,
-       binary-op-exception,
-       bad-format-string,
-       anomalous-backslash-in-string,
-       bad-open-mode
-
-
-[REPORTS]
-
-# Python expression which should return a note less than 10 (10 is the highest
-# note). You have access to the variables errors warning, statement which
-# respectively contain the number of errors / warnings messages and the total
-# number of statements analyzed. This is used by the global evaluation report
-# (RP0004).
-evaluation=10.0 - ((float(5 * error + warning + refactor + convention) / statement) * 10)
-
-# Template used to display messages. This is a python new-style format string
-# used to format the message information. See doc for all details.
-#msg-template=
-
-# Set the output format. Available formats are text, parseable, colorized, json
-# and msvs (visual studio). You can also give a reporter class, e.g.
-# mypackage.mymodule.MyReporterClass.
-output-format=parseable
-
-# Tells whether to display a full report or only the messages.
-reports=yes
-
-# Activate the evaluation score.
-score=yes
-
-
-[REFACTORING]
-
-# Maximum number of nested blocks for function / method body
-max-nested-blocks=5
-
-# Complete name of functions that never returns. When checking for
-# inconsistent-return-statements if a never returning function is called then
-# it will be considered as an explicit return statement and no message will be
-# printed.
-never-returning-functions=sys.exit
-
-
-[BASIC]
-
-# Naming style matching correct argument names.
-argument-naming-style=snake_case
-
-# Regular expression matching correct argument names. Overrides argument-
-# naming-style.
-#argument-rgx=
-
-# Naming style matching correct attribute names.
-attr-naming-style=snake_case
-
-# Regular expression matching correct attribute names. Overrides attr-naming-
-# style.
-#attr-rgx=
-
-# Bad variable names which should always be refused, separated by a comma.
-bad-names=foo,
-          bar,
-          baz,
-          toto,
-          tutu,
-          tata
-
-# Naming style matching correct class attribute names.
-class-attribute-naming-style=any
-
-# Regular expression matching correct class attribute names. Overrides class-
-# attribute-naming-style.
-#class-attribute-rgx=
-
-# Naming style matching correct class names.
-class-naming-style=PascalCase
-
-# Regular expression matching correct class names. Overrides class-naming-
-# style.
-#class-rgx=
-
-# Naming style matching correct constant names.
-const-naming-style=UPPER_CASE
-
-# Regular expression matching correct constant names. Overrides const-naming-
-# style.
-#const-rgx=
-
-# Minimum line length for functions/classes that require docstrings, shorter
-# ones are exempt.
-docstring-min-length=-1
-
-# Naming style matching correct function names.
-function-naming-style=snake_case
-
-# Regular expression matching correct function names. Overrides function-
-# naming-style.
-#function-rgx=
-
-# Good variable names which should always be accepted, separated by a comma.
-good-names=i,
-           j,
-           k,
-           ex,
-           Run,
-           _
-
-# Include a hint for the correct naming format with invalid-name.
-include-naming-hint=no
-
-# Naming style matching correct inline iteration names.
-inlinevar-naming-style=any
-
-# Regular expression matching correct inline iteration names. Overrides
-# inlinevar-naming-style.
-#inlinevar-rgx=
-
-# Naming style matching correct method names.
-method-naming-style=snake_case
-
-# Regular expression matching correct method names. Overrides method-naming-
-# style.
-#method-rgx=
-
-# Naming style matching correct module names.
-module-naming-style=snake_case
-
-# Regular expression matching correct module names. Overrides module-naming-
-# style.
-#module-rgx=
-
-# Colon-delimited sets of names that determine each other's naming style when
-# the name regexes allow several styles.
-name-group=
-
-# Regular expression which should only match function or class names that do
-# not require a docstring.
-no-docstring-rgx=^_
-
-# List of decorators that produce properties, such as abc.abstractproperty. Add
-# to this list to register other decorators that produce valid properties.
-# These decorators are taken in consideration only for invalid-name.
-property-classes=abc.abstractproperty
-
-# Naming style matching correct variable names.
-variable-naming-style=snake_case
-
-# Regular expression matching correct variable names. Overrides variable-
-# naming-style.
-#variable-rgx=
-
-
-[SIMILARITIES]
-
-# Ignore comments when computing similarities.
-ignore-comments=yes
-
-# Ignore docstrings when computing similarities.
-ignore-docstrings=yes
-
-# Ignore imports when computing similarities.
-ignore-imports=no
-
-# Minimum lines number of a similarity.
-min-similarity-lines=4
-
-
-[MISCELLANEOUS]
-
-# List of note tags to take in consideration, separated by a comma.
-notes=FIXME,
-      XXX
-
-
-[TYPECHECK]
-
-# List of decorators that produce context managers, such as
-# contextlib.contextmanager. Add to this list to register other decorators that
-# produce valid context managers.
-contextmanager-decorators=contextlib.contextmanager
-
-# List of members which are set dynamically and missed by pylint inference
-# system, and so shouldn't trigger E1101 when accessed. Python regular
-# expressions are accepted.
-generated-members=target|logger
-
-# Tells whether missing members accessed in mixin class should be ignored. A
-# mixin class is detected if its name ends with "mixin" (case insensitive).
-ignore-mixin-members=yes
-
-# Tells whether to warn about missing members when the owner of the attribute
-# is inferred to be None.
-ignore-none=yes
-
-# This flag controls whether pylint should warn about no-member and similar
-# checks whenever an opaque object is returned when inferring. The inference
-# can return multiple potential results while evaluating a Python object, but
-# some branches might not be evaluated, which results in partial inference. In
-# that case, it might be useful to still emit no-member and other checks for
-# the rest of the inferred objects.
-ignore-on-opaque-inference=yes
-
-# List of class names for which member attributes should not be checked (useful
-# for classes with dynamically set attributes). This supports the use of
-# qualified names.
-ignored-classes=optparse.Values,thread._local,_thread._local
-
-# List of module names for which member attributes should not be checked
-# (useful for modules/projects where namespaces are manipulated during runtime
-# and thus existing member attributes cannot be deduced by static analysis. It
-# supports qualified module names, as well as Unix pattern matching.
-ignored-modules=
-
-# Show a hint with possible names when a member name was not found. The aspect
-# of finding the hint is based on edit distance.
-missing-member-hint=yes
-
-# The minimum edit distance a name should have in order to be considered a
-# similar match for a missing member name.
-missing-member-hint-distance=1
-
-# The total number of similar names that should be taken in consideration when
-# showing a hint for a missing member.
-missing-member-max-choices=1
-
-
-[LOGGING]
-
-# Logging modules to check that the string format arguments are in logging
-# function parameter format.
-logging-modules=logging
-
-
-[VARIABLES]
-
-# List of additional names supposed to be defined in builtins. Remember that
-# you should avoid to define new builtins when possible.
-additional-builtins=
-
-# Tells whether unused global variables should be treated as a violation.
-allow-global-unused-variables=yes
-
-# List of strings which can identify a callback function by name. A callback
-# name must start or end with one of those strings.
-callbacks=cb_,
-          _cb
-
-# A regular expression matching the name of dummy variables (i.e. expected to
-# not be used).
-dummy-variables-rgx=_+$|(_[a-zA-Z0-9_]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+?$)|dummy|^ignored_|^unused_
-
-# Argument names that match this expression will be ignored. Default to name
-# with leading underscore.
-ignored-argument-names=_.*|^ignored_|^unused_
-
-# Tells whether we should check for unused import in __init__ files.
-init-import=no
-
-# List of qualified module names which can have objects that can redefine
-# builtins.
-redefining-builtins-modules=six.moves,past.builtins,future.builtins,builtins,io
-
-
-[FORMAT]
-
-# Expected format of line ending, e.g. empty (any line ending), LF or CRLF.
-expected-line-ending-format=
-
-# Regexp for a line that is allowed to be longer than the limit.
-ignore-long-lines=^\s*(# )?<?https?://\S+>?$
-
-# Number of spaces of indent required inside a hanging  or continued line.
-indent-after-paren=4
-
-# String used as indentation unit. This is usually "    " (4 spaces) or "\t" (1
-# tab).
-indent-string='    '
-
-# Maximum number of characters on a single line.
-max-line-length=100
-
-# Maximum number of lines in a module.
-max-module-lines=1000
-
-# List of optional constructs for which whitespace checking is disabled. `dict-
-# separator` is used to allow tabulation in dicts, etc.: {1  : 1,\n222: 2}.
-# `trailing-comma` allows a space between comma and closing bracket: (a, ).
-# `empty-line` allows space-only lines.
-no-space-check=trailing-comma,
-               dict-separator
-
-# Allow the body of a class to be on the same line as the declaration if body
-# contains single statement.
-single-line-class-stmt=no
-
-# Allow the body of an if to be on the same line as the test if there is no
-# else.
-single-line-if-stmt=no
-
-
-[SPELLING]
-
-# Limits count of emitted suggestions for spelling mistakes.
-max-spelling-suggestions=4
-
-# Spelling dictionary name. Available dictionaries: none. To make it working
-# install python-enchant package..
-spelling-dict=
-
-# List of comma separated words that should not be checked.
-spelling-ignore-words=
-
-# A path to a file that contains private dictionary; one word per line.
-spelling-private-dict-file=
-
-# Tells whether to store unknown words to indicated private dictionary in
-# --spelling-private-dict-file option instead of raising a message.
-spelling-store-unknown-words=no
-
-
-[DESIGN]
-
-# Maximum number of arguments for function / method.
-max-args=5
-
-# Maximum number of attributes for a class (see R0902).
-max-attributes=7
-
-# Maximum number of boolean expressions in an if statement.
-max-bool-expr=5
-
-# Maximum number of branch for function / method body.
-max-branches=12
-
-# Maximum number of locals for function / method body.
-max-locals=15
-
-# Maximum number of parents for a class (see R0901).
-max-parents=7
-
-# Maximum number of public methods for a class (see R0904).
-max-public-methods=20
-
-# Maximum number of return / yield for function / method body.
-max-returns=6
-
-# Maximum number of statements in function / method body.
-max-statements=50
-
-# Minimum number of public methods for a class (see R0903).
-min-public-methods=2
-
-
-[CLASSES]
-
-# List of method names used to declare (i.e. assign) instance attributes.
-defining-attr-methods=__init__,
-                      __new__,
-                      setUp
-
-# List of member names, which should be excluded from the protected access
-# warning.
-exclude-protected=_asdict,
-                  _fields,
-                  _replace,
-                  _source,
-                  _make
-
-# List of valid names for the first argument in a class method.
-valid-classmethod-first-arg=cls
-
-# List of valid names for the first argument in a metaclass class method.
-valid-metaclass-classmethod-first-arg=cls
-
-
-[IMPORTS]
-
-# Allow wildcard imports from modules that define __all__.
-allow-wildcard-with-all=no
-
-# Analyse import fallback blocks. This can be used to support both Python 2 and
-# 3 compatible code, which means that the block might have code that exists
-# only in one or another interpreter, leading to false positives when analysed.
-analyse-fallback-blocks=no
-
-# Deprecated modules which should not be used, separated by a comma.
-deprecated-modules=optparse,tkinter.tix
-
-# Create a graph of external dependencies in the given file (report RP0402 must
-# not be disabled).
-ext-import-graph=
-
-# Create a graph of every (i.e. internal and external) dependencies in the
-# given file (report RP0402 must not be disabled).
-import-graph=
-
-# Create a graph of internal dependencies in the given file (report RP0402 must
-# not be disabled).
-int-import-graph=
-
-# Force import order to recognize a module as part of the standard
-# compatibility libraries.
-known-standard-library=
-
-# Force import order to recognize a module as part of a third party library.
-known-third-party=enchant
-
-
-[EXCEPTIONS]
-
-# Exceptions that will emit a warning when being caught. Defaults to
-# "Exception".
-overgeneral-exceptions=Exception
diff --git a/requirements-lint.txt b/requirements-lint.txt
index e626e64d29331608adf8db3498b2e27bbcf4cefd..08b13b0f611d03e74efd5cfc29167c20f300444d 100644
--- a/requirements-lint.txt
+++ b/requirements-lint.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 black
-pylint==2.4.4
-pylint2junit
+flake8
+flake8_formatter_junit_xml
+flake8-black
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index e106b66ce498ac8a958ee201fe44e96f20358dbc..00c43d7e4aaaf7fd5723498bceaff04d6a7d4025 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -17,3 +17,11 @@ addopts = --verbose
           --junitxml=build/reports/unit-tests.xml
 console_output_style = progress
 junit_family = legacy
+
+[flake8]
+# We have some very long Pogo PROTECTED REGION boundary comments that can't be broken.
+# Black will still wrap at 88.
+max-line-length = 120
+
+# E203 and W503 conflict with black
+ignore = E203,W503