The Residential Landlords Association is urging the Government to remember its pre-election pledge to revoke the previous Labour government’s change for the planning rules on shared houses .

This follows the recent announcement by Housing Minister Grant Shapps that the Government has no plans to reverse the changes to the planning and regulatory rules on HMOs.

Says RLA chairman Alan Ward: “Since April this year landlords can no longer allow groups of three or more young people such as nurses to share a house without getting planning permission. Some three thousand landlords wrote to their MPs before the election to voice their opposition. We hope that the Minister has a better plan to announce shortly and not disappoint both tenants and landlords by changing his mind.”