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New Legislation for landlords
Its all change for Landlords after April 6th 2010. If Landlords want to rent a house to three unrelated people such as groups of workers sharing, a family with a lodger, students, young professionals, immigrant workers and even the elderly, planning permission will be needed.
Popularly called Studentification - these new powers will affect any rented property not rented by a family or related group and landlords will have to pay and wait for planning permission before properties can be rented out legally to these groups.
Alan Ward, chairman of the Residential Landlords Association, criticised the legislation on two grounds: "First of all it is totally impractical and secondly, it is social engineering because planning law has never been about who can live where - it is always about the use of the building."
Mr Ward added that landlords are unlikely to wait for any administrative delays in planning permission being granted.
His comments come after PropertyEarth.net research indicated that three-bedroom houses made up 57 per cent of all property searches by investors.
This is compared to two-bedroom properties, which accounted for 21 per cent of all searches, and four-bedroom properties which took 15 per
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