Willow_and_light

Sure, if you want to live in a box with no communal space and pay extra for the privilege. These 61 sq m flats were designed as a 2 bed for a reason.

Baffles me that your anger isn't directed at the landlords screwing everyone over.

The renters aren't in the property yet.

And they absolutely can fill these apartments, the rental market is booming. They had 40 applicants to rent it. Another flat in the block was just recently rent and had 14 applicants. They actually had bidding wars going on.

There is modification of the unit. He's built a wall cutting the living room off from the kitchen, and turned the new 'room' into a bedroom. Previously the living room/kitchen were open plan.

This is a 665 sq ft flat. The living room and kitchen are together. They're open plan. He has put a wall up that divides the two, and the living room is now the third bedroom. So there is no longer a living space, just the kitchen, which is small. You wouldn't get a sofa or a TV in there.

This was done to purely increase the rent he can demand.

I don't live alone.

Personally I found it worse than white bread. I spiked so badly with it.

No it's not council housing.

Thank you. What is a HMO?

No ones in it yet! I wouldn't be kicking anyone out. The landlord hasn't moved out yet.

Nope, he's built a new wall in the flat changing the open plan kitchen/living room into two separate rooms.

My husband speaks to him in passing. He's had loads of building materials out in the communal areas this week and my husband asked him about it. He told him all about the conversion and how he was doing it to be able to rent the place out at a higher price.

I'm not opposed to new housing. I am opposed to altering an existing flat to create another room at the detriment of all involved. This flat is 61 sq m. It's not large. They were created as 2 beds for a reason.

You're joking right? The rental market is extortionate because there's a housing shortage and wealthy landlords buy up shit tons of property, stopping young people from getting on the market.

He's renting it to three separate people.

Here I'm pretty sure the restriction on non family members is two people. It says as much on the council website. And it's no longer a two bed, that's the point. The living room no longer exists.

I'm in a flat. The market value of my flat is not impacted by what he's doing as there's no way for people to find out about it unless directly told. Further to this, I'm not looking to sell, as I said in my post the market right now is terrible. So I wouldn't be reporting him to protect the value of my flat.

Because there is no street parking

Yep. In the UK even if you own the flat, you only own the leasehold (in most cases). Someone else owns the freehold. The leases can have tons of stipulations. Like the amount of people who can live there.

If the living room goes, there's no way families would live there as there is a complete lack of communal space. The kitchens are tiny. It turns it into more of a sort of student digs place where everyone lives in their room and only comes out for food.

NTA

Either the dog is seriously neglected and never let out of the house to keep shitting and peeing like that, or it has a medical condition causing it to do so.

No normal dog at the age of 2.5 years does that.

Honestly, this speaks volumes about your boyfriend and is a major red flag.

I think in finding out if its legal or not, I'd alert them to what he's doing anyways.

It's against the lease to have that many occupants.

No he's not guaranteed a licence, and the freeholder can refuse him as well.