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LATEST: City makes next move to implement huge new HMO restrictions

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Coventry council has taken its next step towards a huge new scheme that will prevent properties being converted in HMOs without full planning permission.

Eleven out of 18 wards within the city will be covered including Foleshill, Radford, Sherborne, St Michael’s, Earlsdon, Lower and Upper Stoke, Cheylesmore, Wainbody, Westwood and Woberley (see map).

The plans, which were first announced in xxx, will now be put to a full Cabinet meeting on the 30th of August after which a public consultation will take place and implementation most likely next year.

A council report on the proposals makes it clear that it wants to prevent any “unnecessary and avoidable displacement of families searching for properties and provides opportunities for those looking to get onto the property ladder by limiting the number of HMOs in certain wards and ensuring that they are not located so closely together”.

Control numbers

Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities, Councillor David Welsh (pictured) says: “We want to manage the development of HMOs across Coventry and especially in areas of the city where we need to have the ability to control their numbers.

“Housing developments must meet housing need in the city. We need good quality affordable homes for families, we believe this will help improve neighbourhoods.”

Deputy Cabinet Member for City Services, Councillor Gavin Lloyd, who is also a Sherbourne Ward Councillor, adds: “Whilst HMOs are an integral part of the community, as they provide housing to students and young professionals who house share, by controlling the number of them throughout the city – and particularly those in the most saturated areas – we’re supporting residents and accommodating the housing needs of the many, not the few.”

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