This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series House in Multiple Occupation (HMO)From 1 October 2010, incorporating changes already made on 6 April 2010, planning rules are changed affecting HMOs. What is an HMO? A simple non legal definition is that a house (or flat) is an HMO if there are three or more unrelated occupiers. There is also another type of HMO under section 257 Housing Act 2004 which provides for certain converted blocks of flats to be...

[Source of below information: Daily Telegraph  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertyadvice/propertyclinic/5917484/Property-advice-Certificate-of-Lawful-Existing-Use-or-Development.html] John Winter explains what a CLEUD is Yet another acronym – what does it mean? CLEUD stands for Certificate of Lawful Existing Use or Development. A distinction needs to be made between a CLEUD and a CLOPUD (Certificate of Lawfulness Of Proposed Use or...