HMO licensing application
We are advised as follows re 271 Garrioch Road (closing date for comments 15 October 2024):
The Licensing Section has received an Application for Existing Licence for House in Multiple Occupation.
SUMMARY OF APPLICATION
Reference No:-
HMO06131
Applicant:-
OWNER
William Reilly
Address of Living Accommodation:-
271 Garrioch Road, Glasgow, G20 8QZ
Occupant Capacity:-
8
No. of Rooms:-
8
Last Date for Objection/Representation:-
15 October 2024
Kind regards
Licensing Team
Licensing Section
Glasgow City Council
City Chambers
George Square
Glasgow
G2 1DU
Phone: 0141 287 5354
Email: LicensingEnquiries@glasgow.gov.uk
Good to approve. We want to see people coming in numbers to Glasgow. All this regulation is destroying any form of capitalism and progress.
Eight rooms, eight occupants, separate contracts—who in their right mind would even consider this planning? It is bad enough that the council has approved high-rise, high-density student accommodation at the End of Kelbourne Street. Once a handful of HMOs become established as a market opportunity in North Kelvinside, the buy-to-rent investors will pile in, and each tenement will slowly lose its social cohesion.
We have moved once, as a building went down that route. In three years, a community of neighbours became a building filled with temporary residents. Over the summer, the HMO rooms would often turn into Air BnB enterprise zones, with a range of people in and out of the building all summer long. The turning point was the night a summer street party ended, and our front door was propped open as a refuge for anyone that wanted to continue the festivities in flats on two floors above us.