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Petition update, 29 August 2007

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CaSC–Campaign for the Sustainability of Canterbury Communities advocates a change in the law to make landlords of HMOs pay Council Tax or Business Rates.HMOs Houses of Multiple Occupation occupied by full time students do not have to pay council tax yet the tenants make more demands on local services than when it was a family home-the average household is 2.3 persons but the average HMO is at least twice that! In University towns student HMOs create a loss of tax revenue.It is unacceptable that landlords making very large profits should not pay for services which their tenants enjoy as much as any other citizen! We could have more community resources if this deficit was put back into the public purse! The National HMO Lobby advocates amendment of Section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act(1988) such that HMOs no longer qualify as domestic property and thereby become subject to Business Rate-Landlords can’t have it both ways!

Current signatories

Jo Calvert-Mindell, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Edwood Walker
• Patricia Stone
• JOHN COUSINS
• Gwen Boyce
• Louise Block
• Alan Bruce SHRANK
• Lorraine Barter
• Alastair Gill
• Alex Perkins
• john richard benger
• Lee Glendon
• J. FOORD.
• roger mortimer
• Gail Symes
• JEAN FORSYTH
• roger matthews
• Peter Topley
• Bob Chambers
• Ron Flaherty
• Martin Vye
• Marion de Berker
• Sandra Summerfield
• Jill Waller
• Archie Pitts
• Robert Davies
• Nancy Frankel
• christine Melsom
• Barrymore Cummings
• Nigel White
• R. B. Mallion
• Rita Stanleigh
• Sheila M.Lawrence
• Colin Matthews
• paul reynolds
• Peter Child
• Adela Hampson
• Richard Sinfield
• Dalbinder Shemare
• david trimble
• Sarah Ward
• Mrs C Lloyd
• Susan E. Pratt
• Lynne Rye
• Roger Dey
• Janet Dey
• Wendy Murray
• barrie payne
• Christopher Madeley
• Derrick Collier
• cllr RonPepper
• Ian Raines
• Gordon Fyfe
• barry young
• Roy Thomson
• Peter Ebioke
• graham payne
• Alison J Hunt
• Michael Berridge
• P.E.Tinios
• Brenda Frater
• Derek Albert Cockerhama
• Dr P R Marchant
• Patricia Anne Hanrahan
• Pat Hanrahan
• James M Foster
• John Illingworth
• pam davies
• J Lyons
• Steve Haworth
• Margaret George
• Martin Staniforth
• Robert Young
• Janie Percy-Smith
• ROBERT KEYWOOD
• louise Combes
• Martin Cook
• Natalie Wise
• Maureen McRae
• Tony Sanders
• John Griffiths
• Jacky Brown
• Chris Kershaw
• Katharine Warrender
• LINDA SILVERTHORNE
• A.Chapman
• Jane Small
• Katherine Mitchell
• janet cooper
• Giovanni Isaia
• Fred Whitemore
• MIKE BURKETT
• Elizabeth Stewart
• Geoffrey Brittain
• Shirley Britain
• robert throp
• Jonathan Long
• Richard Norton
• a.w.sayer
• p.a.sayer
• Patrick Bingham
• Rachel Sannaee
• Terence Boston-Marsh
• Rachel Harkess
• I Harley
• Alan Lovegrove
• Neville A. Daniels
• Anne Phillips
• Richard Divers
• P Straker
• J Cumming
• Mark Lovegrove
• S.M. Lovegrove
• Philip Masters
• lee ingham
• Hugh Ritchie
• Sally Picksley
• Heather Jeffrey
• alexander lawrence
• Pam Driscoll
• pat williams
• Jane Maple
• Cllr Shaun McGall
• Michael Sibley
• Grant McWilliam
• Andy Newlyn
• alan datlen
• julie pitt
• C.J.Mogan
• Joyce Fitzpatrick
• Sophie Kosinska
• Bill Rollinson
• IAN DELVES
• Joel Heason
• Rachel Coon
• Audrey C Bibb
• Chris Vecsi
• Sadie Alton
• Steve&Alison Hann
• J brocklebank
• glen dobson
• stuart pickford
• Peter Metcalfe
• Margaret King
• brian page
• Alan Judd
• Paul Hudson
• Tony Paley-Smith
• seonaid mackenzie
• Diane Nelson
• Barry Heselwood
• James Dickins
• Bethan Davies
• Charlie Burman
• Ruby Lloyd-Burman
• Sue Barnes
• Simon Docherty
• Rowena Armstrong
• Catherine Cook
• Barbara Sullivan
• Lesley Vecsi
• Cllr James Monaghan
• Claire
• Maureen leggis
• Beryl Hockey
• Sam Shaw
• Jack Anthony Millner
• peter downing
• Fiona McVey
• Sara Bagwell
• Ghada Khattab
• Douglas Link
• Sue E Griffiths
• Juliet McCarthy
• George McCarthy
• Helen Fox-Stevens
• Sophie Scott
• Jill Ford
• Geoffrey Ford
• Andrew Stevens
• John Annan
• Martin Stephen
• martin sant
• lisa sant
• Fred Reed
• Helen Gee
• Sue Osborne
• Douglas Parker
• j pickersgill
• Mark Milton
• Michael Slater
• Susan Leonard
• Neil Leonard
• Sadie Hedges
• barbara wilson
• arron martin zeus Brown
• mark wong
• Arthur Upton
• jean upton
• Arhur Upton
• John Halsall
• Rosemary Thomas
• Lucy Thomas
• Lee Sparey
• bridget safe
• Vincent Herbert
• jean wawman
• madge dresser
• ANGELA WILLATT
• Christine King
• Robin Richmond
• Louise Middleton
• Matthew Perry
• Nigel R. Chudley
• Sonia Jackson
• Julian Rowlands
• Thomas MacDermott
• Susannah Goodwin
• Kath Goodwin
• Andrew Smith
• Maya R.J. Fletcher
• John Fletcher
• Allison Dobbs
• Robert Pearson
• John Walker
• Patricia Walker
• sarah piper
• Robert Howard
• Susan Griffiths
• Hazel Bingham
• BRIAN HODGSON
• Nick Long
• Colleen Oasgood
• Caroline Oasgood
• Rose Williams
• Dipak Patel
• Melinda Moore
• Glyn Owen
• Alison Bromilow
• Sarah Olding
• Carole Wall
• asab ali
• a darn
• Terence Mann
• CARL BRYNING
• Carole Wall
• Alice Luck
• Matt Armstrong
• John Ennew
• scott.blair
• Susan Fleming
• Paul Kingston
• j.beeden @ s. crane
• Cecil Hetherington
• N.patel
• mick o'rorke
• Susan Austin
• Veronica Smith
• joanne lindsay
• Councillor Peter May
• Alan Pearlman
• Councillor James 'Bert' Bremner
• Paul Crossley
• Jill Vincent
• P.Vickers
• Cllr Tim Ball
• Nathan Hartley
• Ian Gilchrist
• Cllr Andrew Furse
• Diana Merrett
• neil murray
• Susan Hitchcock
• Julian Foster
• Patsy Rose
• james davies
• Helen White
• Tim Ashford
• Margaret Court
• Derek Morris
• john R.Williams
• Jerry Gillen
• Leslie Newton