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…
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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…