Consultation on plans to ease Leicester student housing
A six-week consultation is to be held on measures aimed at stopping the spread of student housing in Leicester.
The city council intends to introduce a rule called Article 4. It will require home owners to seek planning permission if they want to have between three and six unrelated people living in the same house – a House of Multiple Occupation (HMO).
The move is to prevent an over-concentration of multiple-occupancy houses in Clarendon Park, the West End, the streets between Leicester Prison and Princess Road West, and a number of the streets to the south and west of Leicester Royal Infirmary …