Issue - meetings

Change of use and conversion of existing ground floor office to HMO (C4).

It was proposed by Councillor Roger Dennison and seconded by Councillor John Hanson:

“That the application be refused for the reasons given in the Committee Report.”

Upon being put to the vote, 13 Councillors voted in favour of the proposal with none against and no abstentions, whereupon the Chair declared the proposal to have been carried.

Resolved:

That the application be refused to the following reasons:

1.     The concentration of HMOs within 100m of the subject building equates to 18%, which exceeds the maximum concentration of 10% prescribed by Policy DM13 of the Development Management DPD. The proposal would result in harm to the quality, character, housing mix and community of the local area, contrary to the aims and objectives of Policies DM1, DM13 and DM29 of the Development Management DPD, Policy SP9 of the Strategic Policies and Land Allocations DPD, the Residential Conversions and Houses in Multiple Occupation SPD, and Paragraph 135 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

2.     By virtue of the proposed layout, the shared living space would be subject to an inadequate level of natural light and an inadequate outlook. Consequently, the proposal would result in substandard living conditions detrimental to the amenity of future users and contrary to the requirements of Policies DM13 and DM29 of the Development Management DPD, Appendix B of the Residential Conversions and HMOs SPD, and Section 12 of the National Planning Policy Framework.