The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2016

Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 420

Housing, England

The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2016

Made

22nd March 2016

Laid before Parliament

23rd March 2016

Coming into force

13th April 2016

The Secretary of State makes the following regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004(1):

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 13th April 2016.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

Educational establishments specified for certain purposes of the Housing Act 2004

2.  An educational establishment is specified for the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 (buildings occupied by students) where—

(a) it is listed in the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(b) it is a member of—

(i) the ANUK/UNIPOL Code of Standards for Larger Residential Developments for Student Accommodation Managed and Controlled by Educational Establishments dated 28th August 2008(2); or

(ii) the Universities UK/Guild HE Code of Practice for the Management of Student Housing dated 17th August 2010(3).

Revocation

3.  The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2013(4) are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Brandon Lewis

Minister of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

22nd March 2016

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE Educational establishments specified for the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004

Anglia Ruskin University

Arts University Bournemouth

Aston University

Balliol College, University of Oxford

Bath Spa University

Birmingham City University

Bishop Grosseteste University

Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford

Blackpool and The Fylde College

Bournemouth University

Bradford College

Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Brunel University

Buckinghamshire New University

Canterbury Christ Church University

Chichester College

Christ Church, University of Oxford

Christ’s College, University of Cambridge

Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Clare College, University of Cambridge

Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

Coventry University

Cranfield University

Darwin College, University of Cambridge

De Montfort University

Downing College, University of Cambridge

Edge Hill University

Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

Exeter College, University of Oxford

Falmouth University

Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Foundation for International Education

Girton College, University of Cambridge

Goldsmiths, University of London

Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge

Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

Harper Adams University

Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford

Hertford College, University of Oxford

Heythrop College, University of London

Hillcroft College

Homerton College, University of Cambridge

Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

Imperial College London

Jesus College, University of Cambridge

Jesus College, University of Oxford

Keble College, University of Oxford

Keele University

Kellogg College, University of Oxford

King’s College London

King’s College, University of Cambridge

Kingston University

Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

Lancaster University

Leeds Beckett University

Leeds Trinity University

Linacre College, University of Oxford

Lincoln College, University of Oxford

Liverpool Hope University

London School of Economics and Political Science

London South Bank University

Loughborough College

Loughborough University

Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

Magdalen College, University of Oxford

Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

Manchester Metropolitan University

Mansfield College, University of Oxford

Merton College, University of Oxford

Middlesex University

Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

New College, University of Oxford

Newcastle University

Newman University

Newnham College, University of Cambridge

Northumbria University

Norwich University of the Arts

Nottingham Trent University

Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Oriel College, University of Oxford

Oxford Brookes University

Pembroke College, University of Cambridge

Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Peterhouse, University of Cambridge

Queen Mary University of London

Queen’s College, University of Cambridge

Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Richmond, The American International University in London

Robinson College, University of Cambridge

Roehampton University

Royal Agricultural University

Royal Holloway, University of London

SCIO - Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford

Selwyn College, University of Cambridge

Sheffield Hallam University

Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

Somerville College, University of Oxford

Southampton Solent University

St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford

St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge

St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

St Chad’s College, University of Durham

St Cross College, University of Oxford

St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge

St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

St George’s, University of London

St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford

St John’s College, University of Cambridge

St John’s College, University of Durham

St John’s College, University of Oxford

St Mary’s University, Twickenham

St Peter’s College, University of Oxford

St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford

Staffordshire University

Teesside University

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

The Royal Veterinary College

Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Trinity College, University of Oxford

Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

University College Birmingham

University College London

University College, University of Oxford

University for the Creative Arts

University of Bath

University of Bedfordshire

University of Birmingham

University of Bolton

University of Bradford

University of Brighton

University of Bristol

University of Buckingham

University of Central Lancashire

University of Chester

University of Chichester

University of Cumbria

University of Derby

University of Durham

University of East Anglia

University of East London

University of Essex

University of Exeter

University of Gloucester

University of Greenwich

University of Hertfordshire

University of Hull

University of Kent

University of Leeds

University of Leicester

University of Lincoln

University of Liverpool

University of London

University of Manchester

University of Northampton

University of Nottingham

University of Oxford

University of Plymouth

University of Portsmouth

University of Reading

University of St Mark & St John

University of Sheffield

University of Southampton

University of Sunderland

University of Surrey

University of Sussex

University of the Arts London

University of the West of England, Bristol

University of Warwick

University of Westminster

University of Winchester

University of Wolverhampton

University of Worcester

University of York

Wadham College, University of Oxford

Warwickshire College

Wolfson College, University of Cambridge

Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Worcester College, University of Oxford

Writtle College

Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford

York St John University

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 (“the Act”) lists types of building that are not houses in multiple occupation (“HMOs”) for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1, which deals with housing conditions). HMOs are defined in section 254 of the Act. Paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Act refers to any building which is occupied solely or principally by persons who occupy it for the purpose of undertaking a full time course of further or higher education at a specified educational establishment, or at an educational establishment of a specified description, and where the person managing or controlling the building is the education establishment in question, or a specified person, or a person of a specified description.

Regulation 2 and the Schedule to these Regulations specify educational establishments. Where a building is managed or controlled by an educational establishment which is listed in the Schedule to these Regulations and that educational establishment is a member of either code of practice referred to in regulation 2(b), then that building is not an HMO for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1).

These Regulations revoke the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1601). They replace the list of educational establishments that appeared in the Schedule to those earlier Regulations.

A copy of the ANUK/UNIPOL Code of Standards for Larger Residential Developments for Student Accommodation Managed and Controlled by Educational Establishments dated 28th August 2008 can be obtained from the National Codes Administrator, 155-157 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 3ED, by emailing [e-mail] or online at www.nationalcode.org or www.anuk.org.uk.

A copy of Universities UK/Guild HE Code of Practice for the Management of Student Housing dated 17th August 2010 can be obtained from Universities UK, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ, by emailing [e-mail]. or online at www.universitiesuk.ac.uk.

Copies of the codes of practice referred to above have been lodged in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.

An impact assessment has not been provided for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

(1)

2004 c.34. The powers conferred by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 (“the Act”) are exercisable, as respects England, by the Secretary of State. See the definition of appropriate national authority in section 26(1) of the Act. In relation to Wales, the powers are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers as, by virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32), the functions of the National Assembly for Wales are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.

(2)

This code of practice has been approved by the Secretary of State under section 233 of the Act. See S.I. 2008/2345, which was revoked by S.I. 2010/2615 but with savings for this code of practice (see article 4 of the later instrument).

(3)

This code of practice has been approved by the Secretary of State under section 233 of the Act. See S.I. 2010/2615.

(4)

S.I. 2013/1601.