Mar
9
Calling all property investors and future property investors, tenants, students, estate agents and lettings agents!!!!
I can’t believe the UK government intend to introduce a law that will spell the death of private renting. Here is my email wording, verbatim, that I sent to my MP. Please feel free to copy the who content, change the MP name for your local MP name, change your name etc and send it off immediately! This proposed law MUST BE STOPPED! Please take action now otherwise the law will be introduced and everyone will be adversely affected.
To find your local MP click this link and follow the easy steps: http://www.rla.org.uk/html/studentificationEmail.shtml
Dear Jim,
Today I received the following email:
Dear Gareth
I am writing to ask you to act urgently and make your voice heard -- tell your MP and the Government why you believe the Government’s change to Planning Use Classes Order is bad for the Private Rented Sector, both for landlords and tenants.
Popularly called Studentification -- these new powers could affect any rented property not currently rented by a family or related group.
After April 6th 2010 if you want to let what has been a family house or flat to three or more unrelated people such as:
- nurses sharing,
- a family with a lodger,
- students,
- young professionals,
- migrant workers,
- even the elderly
YOU WILL NEED PLANNING PERMISSION
If you have an existing shared house or flat which you let to a single person or a family you will lose the right -- once they have moved out -- to let it again to sharers WITHOUT OBTAINING PLANNING PERMISSION.
You will have to pay £335 and wait 8 weeks and probably longer for planning permission before you can legally rent to them. Even then you may be refused planning permission.
And all because Secretary of State John Denham will not listen to the combined voices of landlords and tenants, students, letting agents and local retailer organisations (RLA, British Property Federation, National Union of Students) who are against the measures.
You can make a difference by emailing your MP and the Government NOW
Click here to send our letter and make your voice heard.
Please do it Now -- time is very short.
Yours sincerely
Alan Ward
Chairman
RLA
I can’t tell you how furious I am and how I feel about this crazy law.
Please do not support the measure to introduce new Planning Class Orders.
This will make renting to groups of nurses, teachers, young professionals, immigrant workers, the elderly and any unrelated groups, totally impractical.
“Studentification” was stated in the Rugg report (November 2008) to be a minor issued not requiring legislation.
The RLA has submitted a detailed case against the Statutory Instrument ( http://www.rla.org.uk/news/news.shtml?post=143 ). I and they urge you not to support this measure which will do untold damage to the Private Rented Sector. The Planning Class Orders will kill the private rented sector for non HMO sharers and HMO sharers alike.
Please, please, please help John Denham to see sense and to change his plan to implement this law without proper consideration of the (obvious to me) unintended consequenses of his actions. If you could pass a copy of this email on to him too he might get a feel for the depth of ill-feeling towards this plan.
Yours sincerely,
Gareth C Thomas
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