An application for a five-bedroom House of Multiple Occupation (HMO) has revealed shortcomings in a council's new policy to ...

Originally, the requirement for an HMO licence only applied to properties that comprised at least three storeys but under new rules, introduced on 1 October 2018, size is no longer relevant.

Croydon Council charges £250 per habitable room, so a licence for a five-bed HMO would cost £1,250. Landlords face unlimited fines for renting out unlicensed HMOs.

A landlord in the Rugby area in South Belfast says Belfast Council "misled him badly" over a HMO licence application. Elected representatives at the Belfast City Council Licensing Committee this ...

Gravesham Borough Council has issued a £10,000 fine to the landlord of an unlicensed HMO on Granville Road, Gravesend. The managing agent of a similar property on Parrock Street, also in ...