Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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13 Hungerford Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BU
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Change of use from C3 (Residential) to C4 (House of Multiple Occupancy) (Certificate of Lawful Existing Use) These are the facts:- 1. This house has been rented out to three students at Bath University since at least 2009. At this time, a three bedroom house did not have to be an HMO. 2. Bath University accredited this property from 2009. 3. BANES introduced HMO's for three bedroom houses in 2013. 4. 13 Hungerford Road became a registered BANES HMO in 2013. The HMO licence number is: 18/03140/HMOADD
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