Have you a spareroom? At the time of writing (20 April) a cloud of Icelandic volcanic dust has grounded virtually all planes. Our people cannot get back here and visitors to England cannot return home. At least not until either the skies clear or they can arrange alternative transport. This begs the question ‘where will [...]
The nice people at Spareroom have kindly allowed me to post an update here from their excellent ‘raise the roof’ campaign to increase the rent a room tax exemption. Tessa. ********** Back in November 2009 we launched a campaign called Raise the Roof with the intention of asking the government to increase the tax free [...]
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Planning permission, HMOs and lodger landlords
In my 21 days of tips, I discussed whether taking in lodgers could create an HMO on day 7. However since then the planning law has changed. If you take in more than two lodgers your property may need planning permission. The background to this change in the law, is the numerous complaints to MPs [...]
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