This is day 10 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Describing the property correctly in the tenancy agreement This sounds obvious but you need to be careful. If you get a court order for possession, you do not want the bailiffs to…
This is day 5 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Are you renting out a room in a shared house or the whole property? There are two ways you can rent out a property where more than one person or household will…
New rules for HMO properties As announced earlier this year (and reported by me here) the government has now changed the planning rules to require all HMO properties to get planning permission. These new rules came into force yesterday (6 April 2010). This brings the definition of HMO for the purposes of planning into line…
HMO landlords be warned – the government has announced that the law is to be changed from 6 April, introducing a new planning category for HMOs (the definition to be based on that set out in the Housing Act 2004): we have decided to amend the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) order 1987 as…
The HMO regulations and mandatory licensing was introduced a few years ago now (April 2006) so Councils have had a while to get used to it. It looks like we are beginning to see more Local Authorities applying for extra licensing, for example the HMO licensing in Cathays Ward in Cardiff which I posted on…
One of the stories which stood out for me when I looked through my various feeds and Google news headlines this morning was this one about an application for additional licensing in Cathay ward in Cardiff, Wales. As regular readers of this blog will remember, mandatory licensing for the larger HMO properties was introduced by…
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Unpopular HMO planning laws to change on 1 October
HMOs and planning law As reported on this blog previously, landlords and landlords organisations were extremely unhappy at the changes which were brought in to the planning laws on 6 April this year by the last government. Suspected to have been introduced largely because of problems in one minister’s constituency with ‘studentification’, Labour’s new rules…