By way of introduction, on the 31st May 2012 BANES issued a notice of intention to implement an Article 4 direction. This meant changing the use of a property from C3 (residential) to C4 (HMO) from the 1st July 2013 required planning permission. A House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is defined by the Housing Act 2004 as: A house… Read More
Yesterday I read a very good article on the Estate Agent Today website about for sale boards ( http://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/511-campaigns-mount-against-agents-signs ) and then happened to receive an update email from the local planning office (also about boards). This combination got me thinking again about the various merits and drawbacks of boards in our own area of operations. In Bath, we… Read More
Having very kindly been lent a copy of Abercrombie’s Plan for Bath from 1945 (thanks to Will Sandry), I’ve been avidly reading some of the ideas for the re-organisation of the city from that time. Due to extensive war damage, Professor Abercrombie was asked to submit (in 1943) “an outline for re-planning the city and… Read More
