Issue - meetings

Received a report on a proposal to extend the mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs), which applies to all HMOs of three or more storeys and in which five or more people live, to cover all types of HMO in the Borough.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve its Community Priority of ‘Improving Health, Housing and Social Care’, to:

(i)  The extension of the mandatory licensing scheme for larger HMOs to cover all HMOs in the Borough, in accordance with discretionary powers available to the Council under Part 2 of the Housing Act 2004 and subject to the Secretary of State’s approval; and

(ii)  Authorise the Director of Housing and Health to set fee levels for the HMO licensing scheme, in line with the recommendations of the Council’s Charging Policy Commission.