Fed-up residents have said their once close-knit road should be renamed ‘HMO Street’ – as they accused ‘greedy’ landlords of turning more than a third of homes into shared properties.
Locals living on Princes Street in Mansfield, Nottingham, claim the boom in houses in multiple occupation (HMO) has brought parking chaos, overflowing bins and a revolving door of strangers.
In a stretch of just 42 properties, at least 15 are now HMOs or houses converted into flats, with even more applications in the pipeline.
The latest row erupted after Mansfield District Council approved plans to expand an existing six-bedroom HMO into a ten-person
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