Surrey’s ‘Devil’s Punch Bowl’ Area Designated National Nature Reserve A dominant landscape exists in Surrey; it holds the famed Devil’s Punch Bowl, spans 2,766 hectares, and unites protected zones with partner‐managed tracts. Each land unit links directly to a joint plan; conservation and habitat restoration bind every element. The reserve carries diverse habitats: acidic grass, heath with...
Local Concerns Over Proposal to Convert Family Home into Five-Bed HMO The planning application proposes a conversion—family home to five-bedroom HMO—and stokes deep discontent among residents. The property sits unsold on a compact street in Acocks Green and, with each word linked tightly to its referent, the owner’s decision to convert triggers immediate, densely woven opposition. Residents Voice...
Government Accelerates New Reservoir Projects to Address UK Water Supply Challenges The Government, which now asserts control over planning, directs two reservoir projects in East Anglia and Lincolnshire; these projects, deemed nationally significant, shift control from local bodies to central power so that planning, execution, and delivery occur in a faster, more direct chain, thus uniting policy with...
Fines Imposed for Unlicensed Houses in Multiple Occupation in Gravesend Gravesend authorities—a nexus of decision and enforcement—have imposed fines aggregating £27,500 upon those inhabiting landlord and agent roles; here, the unlicensed status of Houses in Multiple Occupation, detected via direct observation on Granville Road and Parrock Street, establishes a dependency between action and infraction....
Hove Property Proposal: Nine-Bedroom HMO Set to Become Family Home Property Hove functions as nine‐bed HMO; owner, acquiring and holding, plans convert building into single family residence. Planning council receives application; structure—a three‐storey semi‐detached house—carries rental history since the 1970s, operating, housing multiple tenants. Current Use and Proposed Changes Building...
Nine-Bedroom HMO in Hove Plans to Convert into Large Family Home In Hove a tri-level domicile—formerly organized as a nine-bedroom HMO for student occupancy and presently exhibiting a configuration of segmentally attached living units—undergoes a transformation proposal wherein the premises, through a reallocation of spatial nodes and dependency-linked modifiers, are intended to emerge as an expansive...
Edinburgh Plans to Relocate Some Homeless Amid Licensing Crackdown on Temporary Accommodation Edinburgh council acts. Covid-19 forces hotels and B&Bs to become homes. These rooms lose the proper HMO license. About 650 people live in rooms that lack a license. The council sets a deadline before November ends to change this. Licensing Requirement Spurs Change During the pandemic, hotels and B&Bs fall...
New Planning Restrictions Introduced to Curb Shared Housing Growth A local council enacts stringent planning norms that govern HMOs, properties shared by three or more tenants, binding conversion practices strictly; the council, reacting to a substantial four‐year surge in HMOs that engendered concerns about community structure and public service capacity, now insists on planning permission before any...
Rising Council Tax on Second Homes: What Property Investors Need to Know April 2025 comes. England sees second homes taxed more. Owners face council tax raised by local councils. Councils may add a premium of up to 100 percent. In Scotland and in Wales, similar rules apply. Tax rates in these lands can reach as high as 300 percent. What Does This Mean for Second Homeowners? A second home is defined as a...
Concerns Rise Over Increasing Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in Surrey Residents in a Surrey neighbourhood express concern─their feeling links tightly to the rise of HMOs, properties where separate households share one roof and share kitchens and bathrooms. Each HMO connects persons—students, young professionals, low-income tenants—in a housing network aimed at low-cost residence while...
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