National housing and planning policy, including HMOs, is the responsibility,
since the Government re-organisation of May 2006, of the Department
for Communities & Local Government. Since June 2007, the
ministerial team has included Hazel Blears MP (Secretary of State),
Caroline Flint MP (Minister of State for Housing, January 2008),
John Healey MP (Minister of State for Local Government), Parmjit
Dhanda MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Cohesion &
Neighbourhoods) and Iain Wright MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary
of State for Planning). The Department's address is Eland House,
Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU, tel: 0207 944 4101.
| 1985 |
Housing Act [Section 345 defines
HMO as a house occupied by persons who do not form a single
household] |
| 1987 |
Statutory Instrument 1987 764 Town
& Country Planning (Use Classes) Order [planning
legislation on HMOs] |
| 1990 |
Housing
(Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation) Regulations |
| 1995 |
Barnes v Sheffield City Council [a
house shared by five students was deemed not to be a HMO as
they were living as a single household] |
| 1996 |
Housing
Act [Part II provides for discretionary licensing of
HMOs] |
| 1 May 1997 |
Government elected with manifesto
commitment to license HMOs |
| 1997 |
Statutory Instrument 1997 3061 (S.195), Town
& Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997 |
| April 1999 |
DETR Consultation
Paper Licensing of Houses
in Multiple Occupation - England. |
| 11 Jan 2000 |
Harold Best MP,
Early
Day Motion 240, House of Commons |
| April 2000 |
DETR Housing Green
Paper Quality
& Choice: A decent home for all |
| April 2000 |
Leeds HMO Lobby and TARA, Birmingham, begin
national network |
| 1 Oct 2000 |
Scottish Statutory Instrument 2000
177, The
Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Houses in
Multiple Occupation) Order 2000, requiring all Scottish
councils to introduce HMO Licensing schemes [see also, Review
of the First Year] |
| 24 October 2000 |
Angelique Chrisafis, 'Two
square miles of housing hell' The Guardian, 24 October
2000 |
| 27 Oct 2000 |
Nick Raynsford MP,
'Working for Standards, Safety and Co-operation in Student Accommodation',
Unipol Conference Students
in the Community, RIBA, London |
| 8 Nov 2000 |
Adjournment Debate
on HMOs, House of Commons |
| 12 Dec 2000 |
Harold Best MP, Speech
on HMOs, House of Commons |
| 13 Dec 2000 |
DETR Housing Policy
Statement The
Way Forward for Housing |
| Dec 2000 |
J Rugg et al The nature &
impact of student demand on housing markets YPS for Joseph
Rowntree Foundation |
| Feb 2001 |
DETR Discussion Paper
Management
Standards for Houses in Multiple Occupation |
| 9 May 2001 |
Alan Simpson MP, Houses
in Multiple Occupation (Registration Scheme) Bill (Private
Bill) |
| 7 June 2001 |
Government re-elected, again with
manifesto commitment to license HMOs |
| 2 July 2001 |
Jim Cousins MP, question
on HMO licensing, House of Commons |
| 17 July 2001 |
Geraint Davies MP,
Early
Day Motion 171, House of Commons |
| Summer 2001 |
Shelter Commission,
Modernising
the Private Rented Sector |
| 12 Sept 2001 |
DTLR, Review
of Use Classes Order |
| 20 Oct 2001 |
DTLR Consultation Paper Selective
Licensing of Private Landlords |
| Oct 2001 |
HEFCE Consultation Paper, Supply
& Demand in Higher Education |
| 30 Nov 2001 |
Des Turner MP, Home
Energy Conservation Bill (Private Member's Bill) Second
Reading |
| Jan 2002 |
DTLR Consultation Paper, Use
Classes Order |
| 26 Feb 2002 |
House of Commons, HEC
Bill: Committee Stage, amended |
| 10 May 2002 |
House of Commons, HEC
Bill: Report Stage, talked out |
| 16 May 2002 |
Shelter, Private
Renting: a new settlement |
| 17 July 2002 |
House of Commons, HEC
Bill: withdrawn by Des Turner |
| 21 July 2002 |
Paul Harris & Tracy McVeigh 'Student
takeover alarms cities' The Observer 21 July 2002 |
| September 2002 |
ODPM, Approved
Code of Practice for HMO management commissioned from Warwick
Law School |
| 13 November 2002 |
Queen's
Speech promises draft Housing
Bill, with legislation on HMOs |
| 4 December 2002 |
Carol Midgeley 'Hell
of residence' The Times: T2 [supplement] 4 December
2002, pp6-7 |
| 31 March 2003 |
ODPM Draft Housing
Bill Consultation Paper |
| 11-12 June 2003 |
University of Ulster Town
& Gown: Students Living in Local Communities conference,
Jordanstown & Coleraine, Ulster |
| 14 June 2003 |
Catherine Moye 'Students
- don't you just hate 'em?' Daily Telegraph: Property
[supplement] 14 June 2003 |
| 22 July 2003 |
House of Commons, ODPM Select Committee
Tenth Report of Session 2002-03: The
Draft Housing Bill |
| August 2003 |
Tony Tysome et al, 'Town
& Gown' [series] Times Higher Education Supplement
August 2003 |
| 06 September 2003 |
Michael McCarthy, 'Growing
army of undergraduates transforms run-down urban areas for
better and worse' Independent 6 September 2003 |
| 10 November 2003 |
ODPM, Response
to Select Committee Report on Draft Housing Bill |
| 26 November 2003 |
Queen's
Speech announces Housing
Bill, including licensing of HMOs. |
| 08 December 2003 |
House of Commons, Housing
Bill: First Reading |
| 12 January 2004 |
House of Commons, Housing
Bill: Second Reading |
| 20 January 2004 |
House of Commons, Housing
Bill: Committee Stage (to 24 February) |
| 12 February 2004 |
Nottingham South, meeting
the minister, Keith Hill |
| 25 February 2004 |
ODPM PPS1 Creating
Sustainable Communities Consultation Paper |
| 01 May 2004 |
Northern Ireland Housing Executive,
The
Statutory Registration Scheme for Houses in Multiple Occupation
in Northern Ireland
(May 2004) |
| 11 May 2004 |
House of Commons, Housing
Bill: Report Stage & Third Reading |
| 13 May 2004 |
House of Lords, Housing
Bill: First Reading |
| 22 May 2004 |
'The new blacks' The
Economist, vol 371, no 8376 (22 May 2004) p32 |
| |
Laura Clark, 'Student ghettos turn
suburbs into slums' Daily Mail, 22 May 2004, p47 |
| 07 June 2004 |
House of Lords, Housing
Bill: Second Reading |
| 10 July 2004 |
Darshna Soni, 'Student Exclusion
Zone' Channel 4 News, 10 July 2004 |
| 20 July 2004 |
House of Lords, Housing
Bill: Committee Stage |
| 02 October 2004 |
Martin Wainwright, 'Border
controls for student Shangri-la' The Guardian No
49163 (2 October 2004) p12 |
| 13 October 2004 |
House of Lords, Housing
Bill: Report Stage |
| 21 October 2004 |
Lucy Hodges, 'Students no longer
welcome' The Independent: Education & Careers [supplement]
(21 October 2004) pp6-7 |
| 22 October 2004 |
Unipol, Students, Housing &
Community conference, Leeds |
| 02 November 2004 |
Universities UK, The Role of the
University in the Community conference, London |
| 03 November 2004 |
House of Lords, Housing
Bill: Third Reading |
| |
Martin Stott, 'Students in Headingley'
You & Yours BBC Radio 4, 3 November 2004 |
| 08 November 2004 |
House of Commons, Housing
Bill: consideration of Lords amendments |
| 16 November 2004 |
House of Lords, Housing
Bill: consideration of Commons amendments |
| 17 November 2004 |
House of Commons, Housing
Bill: consideration of Lords amendments |
| 18 November 2004 |
Housing
Act receives Royal Assent |
| 28 November 2004 |
Karen Atkinson, 'Books, Bars and
Bother' Julian Worricker and 5 Live Report, BBC
Radio 5 Live, 28 November 2004 |
| 29 November 2004 |
Northern Ireland, Department of the
Environment, The
Planning (Use Classes) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004. |
| November 2004 |
ODPM, Licensing
in the Private Rented Sector: Consultation on the Implementation
of HMO Licensing |
| November 2004 |
National HMO Lobby constituted |
| 17 December 2004 |
Paul Humphries, 'Ready or not' Inside
Housing, Vol 21, no 50 (17 December 2004), pp18-19 |
| 11 January 2005 |
Polly Curtis, 'Work
in Progress: Universities and the government are footing the
bill for research into where and how students are living'
Education Guardian (11 Jan 05) p21 [see
also, Richard Tyler, 'Gowns drown
the town' (letter) Education Guardian (18 January
2005) p4] |
| 07 March 2005 |
Scottish Parliament, Housing
(Scotland) Bill: introduced |
| 14 March 2005 |
High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, Judgement
on Registration Scheme for HMOs |
| 15 March 2005 |
Libby Purves, 'Student Lodgings' The Learning
Curve BBC Radio 4 |
| 21 March 2005 |
ODPM Circular 03/2005, Changes
of Use of Buildings & Land: The Town & Country Planning
(Use Classes) Order 1987 |
| 22 April 2005 |
Olga Wojtas, 'Residents join to fight student
enclaves' THES (22 April 05) p4 [Scotland] [see also
Richard Tyler, 'Good neighbours?'
(letter) THES (29 April 2005) p15] |
| 30 June 2005 |
Steve Bird, 'Neighbours to shame rave students'
The Times (30 June 2005) p17 [Norwich] |
| 15 September 2005 |
Shirley English, 'University accused of swallowing
up town as it expands' The Times (15 September 2005)
[St Andrews] |
| 30 September 2005 |
Joey Gardiner, 'Housing Studies' Regeneration
& Renewal 30 September 2005, pp20-21 |
| 05 January 2006 |
Housing
(Scotland) Act 2006 |
| January 2006 |
Universities UK, Studentification:
a guide to opportunities, challenges and practice UUK,
London, January 2006 |
| 24 January 2006 |
Laura Clark, 'The student ghettos' Daily
Mail, 24 January 2006 |
| |
Donald MacLeod & David Ward, 'Doner
your way' The Guardian: EducationGuardian, 24 January
2006 |
| 25 January 2006 |
Universities UK The
Engagement of Students and Higher Education Institutions with
their Communities Conference, London |
| 27 January 2006 |
Olga Wojtas, 'Report highlights sweet side of
student invasion' Times Higher Education Supplement,
27 January 2006 |
| 29 January 2006 |
Anushka Asthana, 'You
can't live here, students told' The Observer, 29
January 2006 |
| 31 January 2006 |
Sarah Campbell, 'Student free zone' Breakfast,
BBC1, 31 January 2006 |
| |
Jeremy Vine, 'Estate bans students', Jeremy
Vine, BBC Radio 2, 31 January 2006 |
| 06 February 2006 |
Bob Walker, 'There goes the neighbourhood' PM,
BBC Radio 4, 6 February 2006 |
| 22 February 2006 |
Statutory Instrument 2006 371 The
Licensing and Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation and
Other Houses (Prescribed Descriptions) (England) Regulations
2006 [scope of mandatory licensing] laid before Parliament,
also Instruments 372
[management] and 373
[licences, registers, occupants, amenities]. |
| 05 March 2006 |
Ben Leapman, 'Student tax exemption costs town
halls £80m' Sunday Telegraph, 5 March 2006 |
| 06 April 2006 |
Housing Act 2004, Part 2, Licensing
of Houses in Multiple Occupation, comes into effect.
(London Borough of Ealing introduces Additional HMO Licensing.) |
| May 2006 |
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister renamed Dept
for Communities & Local Government (DCLG), and Ruth
Kelly appointed Minister. |
| 12 May 2006 |
Unipol, Students & Communities Revisited,
Conference, Nottingham |
| 1 June 2006 |
Ben Kochan, ‘Community: Scatter the students’
Axis May/June 2006 |
| 2 June 2006 |
Ben Kochan, ‘Rising tide of student mix
elicits action’ Planning 2 June 2006 |
| 27 June 2006 |
Universities UK, Students
& communities living in harmony? Breakfast Seminar,
House of Commons, 27 June 2006 |
| 30 June 2006 |
Jessica Shepherd, 'Student "yobs" drive
out locals' THES, 30 June 2006 [see also letters
from Bristol & National HMO Lobby, THES (7 July
and 14 July 2006)] |
| 7 July 2006 |
Kate Allen, 'Excessive concentration' Inside
Housing 7 July 2006, pp16-18 |
| 26 July 2006 |
Housing Research Summary 228 Dealing
with 'Problem' Private Rented Housing DCLG 2006 |
| 8 August 2006 |
Mark Simpson, 'Student Housing' One O'Clock
News BBC1, 8 August 2006 [see also, Dr Angela Montford,
'The gown can stifle a town' The
Times, 12 August 2006] |
| 1 September 2006 |
Keith Cooper, 'Multiple
Concerns' Inside Housing 1 September 2006, pp16-18
[see also, Richard Tyler, 'Comment:
It's good to discourage' Inside Housing 8 September
2006, p14] |
| 27 October 2006 |
Phil Woolas, Minister for Local Government and
Community Cohesion, visits Loughborough |
| October 2006 |
David Rhodes, The
Modern Private Rented Sector, Chartered Institute
of Housing (for Joseph Rowntree Foundation), October 2006 |
| 15 November 2006 |
Parliamentary University Group, Student
Accommodation, House of Lords, 15 November 2006 |
| 27 November 2006 |
DCLG Approval
steps for additional and selective licensing designations
in England November 2006 |
| 12 December 2006 |
Andy Reed MP, Question
on sustainable communities in areas of high density student
housing, House of Commons |
| 01 February 2007 |
Councillors Campaign for Balanced Communities
University Towns & Cities Inaugural Conference,
Nottingham, 1 February 2007 |
| 01 February 2007 |
National HMO Lobby East Midlands Regional
Meeting, Nottingham, 1 February 2007 |
| 01 February 2007 |
Reports on the above two meetings in Today
(BBC Radio 4), Jeremy Vine (BBC Radio 2) and Drive
(BBC Radio 5), 1 February 2007 |
| 05 February 2007 |
David Sapsted, 'Student
takeover is wrecking our neighbourhoods, say campaigners'
Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2007 |
| 06 February 2007 |
Jessica Shepherd, 'Hostilities
on the home front' Education Guardian, 6 February
2007 |
| 01-02 March 2007 |
NUS Students and the Community Roundtable
Think Tank, London, 1-2 March 2007 |
| 7 March 2007 |
House of Commons, Communities & Local Government
Committee Coastal
Towns (HC 351) The Stationery Office, London,
2007 |
| 28 March 2007 |
All-Party
Parliamentary Balanced and Sustainable Communities Group registered
by the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards |
| 12 April 2007 |
Mark Smulian, 'The young ones' Local Government
Chronicle 12 April 2007, pp20-21 [see also, Mark Pickering,
'University Challenge' LGC, 26 April 2007] |
| 17-21 April 2007 |
Darren Smith, Organizer, Sessions 1456 &
1556 'The restructuring of urban space, higher education and
(post)students' at Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, 17-21 April 2007 |
| 8 May 2007 |
Meeting the Minister: Loughborough delegation
meeting with Minister for
Local Government, London, 8 May 2007 |
| 15 May 2007 |
Louise Tickle, 'Here
come the students - and there goes the neighbourhood' Education
Guardian, 15 May 2007 |
| 15 May 2007 |
Anita Anand et al, 'Swamped with Students' in
Anita Anand, BBC Radio Five, 15 May 2007 |
| 16 May 2007 |
Roberta Blackman-Woods et al, EDM 1488 Balanced
and Sustainable Housing and Communities, House of Commons,
16 May 2007 |
| 22 May 2007 |
Dr Alan Whitehead MP, 'Houses
in Multiple Occupation' Ten Minute Rule Motion, House of
Commons, 22 May 2007 |
| 02 June 2007, onwards |
Patrick Collinson, 'A
plague on all their houses' Guardian, 2 June 2007;
Patrick Collinson, 'Laid
to waste by a feeding frenzy' Guardian, 9 June
2007;
Tony Leven, 'Nottingham's
forest of housing despair' Guardian, 16 June 2007. |
| 05 June 2007 |
Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, 'Balanced
and Sustainable Communities' and
Mark Lancaster MP, 'Houses
in multiple occupancy'
Adjournment Debates, Westminster Hall, 5 June 2007. |
| 11 June 2007 |
National Union of Students, Students
in the Community:Working together to achieve harmony,
NUS, London, 11 June 2007 |
| 14 June 2007 |
Jonathan Guthrie, 'Educate the young, and what
do you get?' Financial Times, 14 June 2007 |
| 18 June 2007 |
Nottingham City Council, delegation to DCLG,
London, 18 June 2007 |
| 19 June 2007 |
Norwich City Council & University of East
Anglia Studentification: the next
steps Conference, Norwich, 19 June 2007 |
| 27 June 2007 |
All-Party
Parliamentary Balanced and Sustainable Communities Group inaugural
meeting, Portcullis House, 27 June 2007 |
| July 2007 |
DCLG Homes
for the Future: more affordable, more sustainable July
2007 |
| 13 August 2007 |
DCLG, Evaluating
the impact of HMO and Selective Licencing: the baseline before
licencing in April 2006. August, 2007 |
| 25 October 2007 |
Universities UK, The University and the community
- New directions for public engagement Conference, Woburn
House, London, 25 October 2007 |
| 15 November 2007 |
Justin Rowlatt, 'Buy-To-Let Bother' The ONE
Show, BBC1, 15 November 2007 |
| 15 January 2008 |
Planning Minister Iain Wright,
written
answer: "We propose to consult on possible amendments
to the Use Classes Order in relation to HMOs later in the year,"
House of Commons, 15 January 2008 |
| 05 February 2008 |
Nottingham City Council, delegation to DCLG,
London, 5 February 2008 |
| 03 March 2008 |
DIUS A New
University Challenge, 3 March 2008 |
| 04 March 2008 |
DCLG, Private Rented Sector Review, Policy Round
Table: Student Housing,
London, 4 March 2008 |
| 13 March 2008 |
Councillors Campaign for Balanced Communities
Agenda for Change Conference, Nottingham, 13 March
2008 |
| 13 March 2008 |
National HMO Lobby East Midlands Regional
Meeting, Nottingham, 13 March 2008 |
| 13 March 2008 |
National HMO Lobby Balanced
Communities & Studentification launch, Nottingham,
13 March 2008 |
| 09 April 2008 |
Housing and Planning Minister
Caroline Flint launched
"a new review aimed at improving the management and conditions
of people living in Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs),"
9 April 2008 |
| 09 April 2008 |
Department for Communities & Local Government
HMOs Seminar Eland House, London, 9 April 2008 |
| April 2008 |
Northern Ireland Housing Executive A
Strategy for Houses in Multiple Occupation in Northern Ireland:
Consultation Document April 2008 |
| 21 May 2008 |
House of Commons, Communities & Local Government
Committee The Supply
of Rented Housing (HC 457) The Stationery Office, London,
21 May 2008 |
| May 2008 |
Universities UK Universities
Planning Guidance May 2008 |
| 09 June 2008 |
NUS Students in the Community: Beyond the
Campus conference, Leeds, 9 June 2008 |
| 24 June 2008 |
Andrew Smith MP (Oxford East) Private
Rented Sector Debate, Westminster Hall, 24 June 2008 |
| July 2008 |
HEFCE A
new ‘University Challenge’: consultation on
proposals for new higher education centres HEFCE, Bristol,
2008 |
| 11-12 August 2008 |
University of Brighton Universities &
Community Liaison conference, Brighton, 11-12 August 2008 |
| 12-14 August 2008 |
Unipol Student Housing: The Market, The Community
and What Students' Unions Can Do conference, Leeds, 12-14
August 2008 |
| 17 August 2008 |
Sebastian O'Kelly 'Round up students and protect
towns from the havoc that they wreak' The Mail on Sunday
17 August 2008 |
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