(Item CH 18/28 referred from Communities and Housing Advisory Board minutes of 12 November 2018)
Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Communities and Housing Advisory Board of 12 November 2018.
The Cabinet resolved that:
The recommendations of the Communities and Housing Advisory Board be approved as follows:
The charges for the following be agreed with effect from 1 April 2019:
(1) £524 for a new mandatory HMO licence application;
(2) £483 for the renewal of a mandatory HMO licence application;
(3) £380 for a new caravan site licence where the use of the site is for permanent residential use; and
(4) £180 for the transfer of a caravan site licence for a permanent residential use site.
The report of the Director of Central Services provided an update on the existing fees charged to license a house in multiple occupation or caravan site and outlined the proposed charge to be applied following a review of the administrative costs of processing applications for Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and for residential mobile (park) home sites.
RECOMMENDED: That the charges for the following be agreed with effect from 1 April 2019:
(1) £524 for a new mandatory HMO licence application;
(2) £483 for the renewal of a mandatory HMO licence application;
(3) £380 for a new caravan site licence where the use of the site is for permanent residential use; and
(4) £180 for the transfer of a caravan site licence for a permanent residential use site.
*Referred to Cabinet