Housing Services have just launched a consultation on a proposal for Additional HMO Licensing to cover Bath City.
Bath and North East Somerset Council wants to ensure the safety and good management of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) that are privately rented within the Bath City area and encourage a choice of housing in the district including affordable housing. However the current HMO licensing scheme and a recent stock survey has shown that many HMO properties require an improvement of conditions and management to achieve this aim.
We have just started publicising the consultation which includes an online survey, meetings with stakeholder groups, face to face interviews with a range of individual stakeholders and two public meetings.
This Survey is important to be able to control the quality of HMO’s and to be able to restrict the spread of poorly managed ones.
The link to the consultation is here.
