AIBU to object to a large co-living dwvelopment near my home?

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I live in the North East. The local paper published an article yesterday about someone applying to turn a shop near me into a "large co-living development' with 18 rooms and communal area. Aimed at young professionals apparently and they're denying it's a HMO.

It's obviously a HMO

There's no parking. The space is small. It's 3 minutes walk from a primary school. I've looked up the developers - they're based in London.

Would you object?

Because they're less likely to care who's living there surely?

Well someone who can't afford their own studio or 1bed to rent, doesn't want to share a bathroom with strangers and I am assume will have a weekly cleaner it's basically living in halls but with other workers not students,

if they do it right should have utility room and decent size en suite bedrooms and enough kitchen storage space for everyone.

Personally it's better if it's a large block as you can add in things like libraries and cinema rooms and you'd have regular cleaners so yes that doesn't sound great but still better than some of the house shares where you have to share a bathroom with some randoms

It's a small block. It was a cafe recently with a flat or 2 upstairs

HMOs can be problematic but this development sounds like it’s targeted at a specific demographic and therefore may price out the less desirable residents?

Agree with this. Dd lives in a massive coliving building aimed at young professionals. The building is 50 floors high and there must be about 40-50 people on each floor. Not a single parking space and that was actually considered a positive when planning permission was granted. They don’t want cars and the traffic impact, they want people who are happy to walk/use public transport.

Her building is quite upmarket I would say. Certainly no issue with drugs or poor behaviour. She’s a young professional, they all have ensuite rooms, her flat has a shared kitchen and sitting area. The building has a large communal area (and a gym). It’s very sought after.

No. What’s wrong with an HMO? My student DD lives in one, and many young professionals that’s the only way they can afford to live in London is by renting in a house share. Sounds like a good idea to me.

You still haven’t explained your comment about a primary school

If this development attracts the same kind of people as the one nearby then it'll be rapists, drug dealers, growers, people who attack others with machetes.

I think you have to be quite wealthy to live in these, they're really boutique, not like HMO's at all. There's a few in London which I thought looked really nice and think it's a good way of building community where there are isolated people who don't want to live alone.

It's not an area that wealthy people would choose to live.

I think most people in a low end HMO will be on benefits and will not be able to afford an HMO aimed at young professionals.

It is not young professionals who carry machetes. and if there will be weekly cleaners then they wouldn't be able to hide a grow flat. No development can guarantee there will be no rapists in the buildin, just like any street in a new build area.

Weekly cleaners?

What does a rapist look like op? They come from all classes

It's not about what they look like. The HMOs nearby have housed people who are rapists (convicted whilst living in the HMO, having raped women in it) and drug dealers and machete wielders

I'm sure that statistically that many crimes wouldn't occur on a street without an hmo

I don't understand what difference it makes if it's "young professionals" or not.

If it's somewhere people can live safely and happily then that's got to be a good thing surely? Or am I missing something

This thread is boring.
Move out if you don't want an a co-living space near you. Sounds like you don't like the area much anyway.
The end.

You can have a job and still be broke

Don't read it then!

Sorry missed your last post.

This is a completely ridiculous way to think. You've been reading far too many issues of certain newspapers and watching too much of certain tv stations.

For goodness sake, leave other people alone and stop being so bigoted, judgemental and nasty. Your views are based on hate speech. Please educate yourself!

Me at 35 fleeing DV and it's all I could afford

I think it's that nobody round here believes it is actually aimed at young professionals and that it's an HMO in disguise. This is because other HMOs nearby were also billed as being for young professionals but actually house people who commit terrible crimes.

This seems to be the new model in Brighton to. They are safe secure but expensive to my mind. Fully furnished you just bring your clothes

I'm not reading anything (although I did follow the latest rape case as an ex student of mine was found guilty of it)

I know people who live in the street. I know people whose kids have been offered drugs. I know a paramedic who dealt with a stabbing in one of the HMOs recently. I'm not sitting in an ivory tower reading the Daily Mail - I live in the North East, on a council estate. I'm not clutching my pearls and wanting to banish the peasants to the slums

Where do these people come from op? Are they housed from.prison? Is it a hmo specifically for ex offenders? Or does living in an hmo turn them into criminals? Is unclear what you mean really.
Have the machete wielders been arrested? Have the drug dealers been arrested?
For example maybe it is ained at key workers young teachers doctors social workers etc
Will they turn into machete wielding drug dealers because they share communal spaces?

Im wondering this. The most puzzling part of it.