Student parties

[Fandajji]

Could a 6 bed student HMO have 6 people socially gathering per room? My nephew seems to think this is fine as a each tenant is a separate household. They'll be having their freshers party as normal and have a "solid plan" of giving everyone a room number to run to if the police turn up.

I can't find any guidance to back me up that this is not ok. I think there's a lot of these planned, they are even trying to arrange a 6 per room bar crawl type thing where 5 move to the next one and then 5 from that one move on and so on.

Basically, HMOs, 1 household or 6 individual households?

@RingtheBells yes you are right too. I think the gathering part will be just as key as the number? You were quite clearly not in a gathering with everyone in the house. I am getting there slowly! I still think a house full of students having 6 simultaneous parties with 5 guests each could be pushing it.

I have just thought of something, is there a lock on each of the room doors in the house, the HMO that I visited did have, I know DS’s halls of residence did but I am not sure about the HMO he lived in, would that make a difference between being a shared house and a HMO. Obviously halls come under the university rules