HMO

Matthew Murray House. Google image.

Council blocks conversion of historic building into 17-bed shared house
Planning permission refused v.1

A retrospective planning application has been submitted to allow the former Black Swan, on Westgate, to remain in use as 13-bedroom shared accommodation. LDRS image

Black Swan: New HMO plan for former city centre hotel

The site of former Hull Grammar School was earmarked for student accommodation, but could now become a place of worship if plans are given the green light.

Former Yorkshire grammar school could become church and foodbank

53 North Marine Road, Scarborough. Google Maps

Homelessness charity defends Scarborough HMO plans

The property on North Marine Road, Scarborough.

Scarborough HMO growth sparks fresh tourism concerns

Hullywood Rooms, Hull

City hotel could be converted into a 27 bedroom HMO

Coun William Stuart Outside The Town Hall With A Map Of HMOs. Courtesy Numminen, LDRS

Council row over HMO approvals in Scarborough town centre

Plans have been approved to convert a vacant listed building on Bond Street, in Wakefield city centre, into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) for nine people.

Listed former solicitor’s office to be converted into HMO

153 Little Horton Lane

Plans to turn mid-terrace home into eight-bedroom HMO refused

Matthew Murray House. Google Image.

Historic building could be turned into a 17-bed shared house

Virginia Tavern

Vacant pub could be turned into HMO for those “starting on housing ladder”

The Graziers pub, Market Street, Wakefield, in 2009.

Former city centre pub to be turned into HMO

Hyde Park Terrace

Appeal launched after plans for six flats in Leeds student area were refused

Virginia Tavern

‘Decline of pub sector’ blamed for plans to convert tavern into HMO

Old Library Idle

‘Depressing’ HMO language fuels fear, councillor says after plans approved

The plans see the site of Nicholson House, a former care home on Mirfield Grove, being redeveloped.

Plans to convert Hull care home into 33-bed house approved

Durham Street, Hull

Hull councillors delay decision on 15-bed HMO for vulnerable women

Midland Road, Royston

HMO proposal refused over flood and safety concerns

Greaves Street Flats

Fire damaged former cafe could be converted into six flats

Plans to convert the former Barclays bank in Pontefract town centre into apartments and business units have been approved. Image: Ian Rowan

Historic former bank set to be converted into flats in Yorkshire

Former Yorkshire chip shop to be turned into HMO after new planning appeal
A developer has been granted permission to convert a former fish and chip shop into a house share – three years after the controversial scheme was rejected.
Tony Gardner

Matthew Murray House.

Plans to turn historic building into 22-bedroom shared house blocked

Portland Hotel in Hull

Police object to plan to turn former hotel into mammoth 122-bed HMO

Swallownest Hmo

Former Swallownest bank to be turned into shared accommodation

Plans to convert the former Barclays bank in Pontefract town centre into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) have been withdrawn. Image: Ian Rowan

Plans to turn historic former town centre Barclays bank into HMO withdrawn

How a bedroom in the HMO could look. Credit: Hull City Council / Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson.

Plan to create mammoth 122-bed HMO on at former four-star Yorkshire hotel

A historic Victorian villa in Sheffield city centre could soon be transformed into new housing under a fresh proposal.

Former 19th century Victorian villa used for offices may turn into new homes

Plans have been submitted to turn former offices close to Normanton town centre into flats. The proposal involves transforming the building on Castleford Road into four new homes. Google image

Castleford Road: Plans to turn former offices into flats

The Albert Hotel and Sports Bar: Application approved to turn former pub into 22-bed house

Application approved to turn former pub into 22-bed house

337-341 Beverley Road, Hull. 32 bed HMO approved. Credit Google.

Controversial 32-bed HMO approved despite much objection

Former Black Bull pub, Lumley Street, Castleford. Google image from Jane 2024

Plan to turn former pub into “oppressive” apartments refused

7 Blands Cliff, Scarborough. Courtesy North Yorkshire Council

Plans for 13-bed HMO in Scarborough South Bay approved
Plans for a 13-bed HMO in Scarborough South Bay have been narrowly approved by councillors despite dozens of objections.
Anttoni James Numminen

Planning officers at Sheffield City Council will have to decide whether to allow a historic house built in the 1800s to be changed for flats on Burngreave Road.

19th-century Sheffield house with 40 rooms may become flats

Wakefield Council has refused permission for a shop on Dunbar Street to be converted into a HMO for nine people. Google image.

Plans to turn shop into house share for nine people refused

Salisbury Place, at Boothtown, Halifax, was built as part of the model village of Akroydon in the 19th century.

Plans to convert Grade II listed Yorkshire home into HMO rejected

Primrose Valley Holiday Park. Google Maps.

Plan for former Filey pub to become 15-bed HMO for holiday park staff

Plans to turn the former Avondale Fisheries, in Thornes, Wakefield, into a HMO have been re-submitted. Residents began a campaign to stop the scheme in August 2022.

Controversial plan to turn former fish shop in Yorkshire into HMO re-submitted

The four-floor home is set to be auctioned on April 23, 2024 via Pugh Auctions – with a guide price of £130,000.

Grade II listed former headmaster’s home on Farsley town street up for auction

The New Clarence lit up

Campaigners celebrate £300,000 grant to create community-owned pub

The New Clarence lit up

More than £100,000 raised towards city's first community owned and run pub

51 Hanover Square

Proposals to turn listed 1840s building into bedsits

A developer has lost his appeal after being refused permission to turn the former Avondale Fisheries, in Wakefield, into a house share for 14 people. Residents began a campaign to stop the scheme in August 2022.

Plan to turn Yorkshire chippy into house share for 14 people turned down

North Yorkshire Council has approved the conversion of a vacant shop unit and its upper floors into an 11-bed HMO.. 20 Victoria Road. Google Images

Council approves conversion of Scarborough town centre shop into 11-bed HMO

Plans to turn a former gospel hall, on Smawthorne Lane, Castleford, into flats have been approved despite strong opposition from residents.

Plans approved to turn former gospel hall into flats met with angry objections

The outside of The New Clarence pub in Charles Street, Hull

More than 100 people back bid to turn Yorkshire pub into community asset

Melrose Street, Scarbrough. Google Images

Former Scarborough private club converted into 12-bed HMO

John Symons Home, in Park Row, Hull. Picture is from Hull City Council\'s planning portal

Plans to convert former Hull doctors surgery into 32-bed HMO blocked

The Sportsman in Sheffield

Residents launch petition against plans to turn pub into a 19-bed house

Residents “fuming” in York as student HMO growth leads to ‘noisy parties, congestion and aggressive behaviour’

Residents 'fuming' in York as student HMO growth leads to ‘noisy parties'

‘An absolute abomination’: Chip shop house share plan rejected due to overcrowding and parking concerns

Chip shop house share plan rejected due to overcrowding and parking concerns

Residents have reacted with fury over a developer’s amended planning application to turn a former chip shop into a house share.

Revised chip shop housing plan branded ‘cynical’ and ‘abhorrent’

Plans to convert former pub into multi-occupancy house approved by council

Plans to convert former pub into multi-occupancy house approved by council

An apartment development that would provide emergency and social housing has been refused planning permission, partly due to concerns it would offer poor facilities for future residents.

Apartment development which would provide emergency housing refused

BBC Wire

Residents launch campaign to stop former fish shop being turned into house

The property at College Grove Road in Wakefield will have 12 bedrooms let on a short-term lease.

'The area is becoming a slum': Residents hit out at multiple occupancy plans

Damon Wiseman pictured outside the former Cargo Hold restaurant building on Church Street in Sheffield city centre, which he is planning to turn into luxury apartments with a new restaurant on the ground floor

Yorkshire man, 23, quits £100k-a-year Russian goldmine job to develop property

A developer wanted to turn the houses on Beverley Road into a 19-bed HMO

Objection to turning Regency era houses into bedsits on Hull's Beverley Road

The ground floor dining area

This gorgeous York holiday let earned the owner Airbnb superhost status

Plans to turn 21 Parliament Street into a house in multiple occupation are down for refusal

Plans to carve up house in Hull's finest Georgian street sets 'undesirable prece...

The former police station in Sowerby Bridge will be turned into 19 bedsits as a large home of multiple occupancy.

‘Happy Valley’ Police Station conversion approved

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