HMO Headache

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We take a look at Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMOs). Why are there so many in Portsmouth? What need are they filling? What problems do they cause? Who's winning? We interview Cabinet Member for Planning Policy Cllr Hugh Mason and Cllr Ben Swann. Portsmouth City Council's planning page. See new applications here and make comments: https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-applications/planning-applications-view-and-comment-online/ Reporting problems with HMOs to Portsmouth City Council: https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/en/AchieveForms/?form_uri=sandbox-publish://AF-Process-9bb346b9-5f5c-47d5-8a93-620e57be5e05/AF-Stage-652833ab-3b31-47b3-b7c2-7422281bdc30/definition.jsonandredirectlink=%2FenandcancelRedirectLink=%2FenandconsentMessage=yes Portsmouth Council's HMO database: https://data.portsmouth.gov.uk/tables/development-and-planning/planning-hmo/

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.
0:03.0	I'm Ian Tini Morris.
0:04.7	And I'm Simon Sandsbury.
0:13.5	And welcome to the latest episode of the Pompey Politics Podcasts.
0:17.6	And today we're going to tackle one of those big issues that affects local
0:21.6	politics and no it's not parking or poo they can stay on the they can stay on the
0:26.4	back burner but today we're going to have a look at one of the really big issues in
0:30.7	the housing sector and we're going to take a glance at houses of multiple
0:35.7	occupancy which for those of you who follow on the sort of message
0:39.8	boards and the local political forums will know that this has become a really hot topic.
0:46.9	So, Simon, what have we got?
0:49.8	So, we've got, in a second, we've got a recorded interview with Councillor Q Mason,
0:56.2	who's the Cabinet Member for Planning Policy.
0:59.9	So we had a good chat with him earlier on today.
1:02.6	But we are joined live through the powers of the internet, Councillor Ben Swan.
1:07.6	Thank you very much for joining us, Ben.
1:08.9	Thank you for having me.
1:14.6	Yeah, so what we'll do is we'll play that interview and then we'll build a picture about HMO, so houses and
1:19.6	multiple occupancy, and then we'll go through that.
1:24.6	So let's get cracking, shall we's hear what um let's hear what
1:27.9	you had to say welcome Hugh and thank you for joining us well thank you very much um so
1:40.3	I guess we we we need to kind of get an idea of what that role means.
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