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Stoke-on-Trent Approves City-Wide Article 4 Direction Restricting HMOs
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to bring in new planning controls for Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) across the city. The council's Cabinet has approved a city-wide Article 4 Direction.
The direction would remove permitted development rights that currently allow family homes to be converted into small HMOs without planning permission.
For letting agents in Stoke-on-Trent, future conversions of family homes into small HMOs would require planning permission, rather than proceeding under permitted development rights as at present.
Source: Landlord Today