Issue - items at meetings - Houses of Multiple Occupation - Response to matters raised at full Council

Report of the Executive Director for Economy, Environment & Culture (copy attached).

62.1      The Committee considered a report of the Executive Director for Economy, Environment & Culture in relation to Houses of Multiple Occupation - Response to matters raised at full Council. This report considered the matters raised at full Council on 20 October 2016 following the submission of a petition on behalf of ‘Family Homes Not HMOs, namely that: The City Plan Part One be reviewed to increase the area of restriction from 50 metres to 150 metres where applications for conversion to HMOs will be rejected if more than 5% of current dwellings are already HMOs; consideration be given to the extension of the current Article 4 Direction area and options to further extend the licensing of private rented housing; and consideration be given as to whether to better align the Planning and Licensing functions in relation to HMOs and learn from other university towns as to more effective management of student HMOs and to request a report on this matter to its next meeting. This report set out the Officer response to these issues.

62.2      The Committee agreed to defer the report to the next meeting to allow further options to be provided for consideration.

62.3      RESOLVED – That the report be deferred.