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Landlord who left tenants 'living in squalor' fined almost £12k
Lee Challinor, 41, failed to obtain a house of multiple occupation (HMO) licence. Stoke-on-Trent City Council launched an investigation after a tenant complained. HMO licensing officer visited three times in May and June, 2022. Five people from four households were using shared kitchen, bathroom and shower room.
Nationwide sends 24-hour message to any customer who's a landlord Nationwide subsidiary The Mortgage Works (TMW) will be reducing its rates. Rates will be slashed by up to 0.40 percentage points across its Limited Company and HMO range for new business products.
An earthquake warning 6,000 miles away - Los Angeles Times The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers plans to meet with the Writers Guild of America next week. Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers voted to authorize a strike against the HMO if no agreement is reached.
Healthcare workers with Kaiser Permanente rally for new contract - Los Angeles Times The protest is part of an ongoing dispute between the Oakland-based HMO and a coalition of unions. The coalition represents more than 85,000 healthcare workers in seven states and the District of Columbia.
New HMO rules in Solihull as landlords to be charged more HMO owners in Solihull are facing new fees for advice and inspections. The service is expected to cost HMO owners an extra £52.73 per hour. Total fees for each case will depend on the time required to finish the work.
Plans to turn mysterious death house into HMO The three bedroomed property has been boarded up since the death in January 2022. Locals were alarmed when an application was lodged to dramatically extend it into a seven en-suite-bedroomed house. If passed, it would be the 209th approved HMO facility in the Erdington ward alone. The house next door is already a HMO and residents said they were previously plagued by anti-social behaviour, fights and rubbish.
Why us? MP fumes over yet another HMO bid for area with highest number in city Erdington's Paulette Hamilton opposed a scheme to extend a three-bedroom home to accommodate seven people. She said residents had expressed concern about the impact another HMO would have in the family area. On Wednesday, July 19, city planners refused an application for another scheme to turn the former Old Royal Oak pub into a ten-bedroom HMO.
A community ruined by HMOs as residents talk of mayhem, fights and raids A 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody. The victim, found dead on Tuesday afternoon, July 11, was said by locals to have been living in a HMO. Residents tell of a community plagued by crime on a near-daily basis.
Fire at former pub turned into HMO saw residents 'flee through windows' Blaze broke out in the old Adam & Eve pub at the junction of Bradford Street and Warner Street in Bordesley, on the edge of Digbeth. Some 30 firefighters in six fire engines were called to the scene shortly before 3am, with the first arriving within three minutes. In total firefighters rescued one resident from the HMO (house of multiple occupation), led six to safety with a total of 18 evacuated from the building.
'I lie in bed worrying about money - I can't see any way out' Bill West, 64, lives in an HMO and survives on £164 a fortnight in Universal Credit. But a big chunk of that is spent on rent, leaving him with even less to live off. He has been forced to turn to food banks in order to get by and is a regular at Feedo Needo.
Financial pressures push Clinicas to begin pulling plug on HMO subsidiary Clinicas del Camino Real reported a $15 million loss last year. It laid off 12 of 13 employees at its subsidiary HMO, AmericasHealth Plan. State regulators said they weren't properly notified of the move and have opened an investigation.
'It's an open prison': Plans to turn old library into huge 48-bed home scrapped Atherton Library, on York Street, has been 'abandoned' and unused since 2018. Developers bought the 118-year-old building after it was put up for sale in 2021. They submitted plans to turn it into the huge HMO, which would have seen the rooms housed within two blocks. 60 objection letters sent into the council’s planning team.
HMO bid for former Royal British Legion site rejected for third time Two previous bids to redevelop the former Royal British Legion Club site in Stafford Road, Cannock, were refused permission by members of Cannock Chase Council. The first application sought consent for a 24-bedroom HMO and the second proposal was for an 18-bed HMO. Both cases went to appeal, where they were dismissed by planning inspectors. The latest application was for a 17-bed house in multiple occupation.
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