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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...

Former City Centre Hotel Set for Transformation into 122-Bed HMO The hotel—closed since 2012 and once commanding city prestige—now lies at the heart of a redevelopment plan. This plan recasts the building into an HMO that contains 122 beds. Each concept ties closely, word to word, forming a network that binds past function to future purpose. Details of the Proposed HMO The design links floors in exact...

Planning Approval Granted for Home Extension Amid HMO Concerns Planning committee–approved application extends property, converts garage to habitable space; local residents–objected, raised concerns—neighbors–perceive extension as prelude to HMO conversion, increased occupancy, aggravated parking constraints. Application, detailing extension and conversion, aligns with national regulation...

Significant Fines Issued for Unlicensed HMOs in Gravesend Local authorities in Gravesend, Kent, impose penalties; the fines connect directly to landlords and managing agents who run unlicensed Houses in Multiple Occupation. Two properties—one on Granville Road and one on Parrock Street—witness enforcement actions, penalties aggregating at £27,500; the Granville Road landlord bears a £10,000 charge...

Planning Approved for Conversion of House into Nine-Bedroom HMO to Support Homeless in Hastings A local charity, propelled by severe social necessity, has yet secured planning approval which reassigns a residential structure into a nine-bedroom HMO; the charitable objective, reliant on dense dependency relations between shelter and support, interweaves property conversion with measures tailored for rough...

Proposal to Convert Elmdon House into Six-Bedroom HMO Submitted to Solihull Council The planning application, submitted with intent, transforms a dwelling at Old Lode Lane from its single-household state into a structure that accommodates six unrelated tenants. The conversion, designed under planning provisions, restructures spatial nodes via direct dependencies: the property, once linear, now multiplies...