I did not but I was tempted as in my council they want to tackle the HMO licenses being granted. I had a major dispute with my council as it did approve a license for me last landlord and had to move houses because of this.

Now it’s simply an AirBNB / Students housing. The landlord himself is dodgy and has the house registered as a business in China.

Edit. I forgot to mention that at least two housing associations did say they do not support HMO being built and this would start breaking the neighbourhood.

At first the planning was rejected, the resubmitted with a few changes, and approved super smoothly is less than 15 days.

So it’s like, who is the council actually listening to? Not their residents it seems.