A proposal for a nine-bed house in multiple occupation (HMO) in Scunthorpe, with capacity for 13 people, has been refused permission.
The property in Sheffield Street used to be the home of a working men’s club. Approximately 18 months ago, the front section was turned into two flats. The larger flat, which has four bedrooms, has been “very difficult to rent out economically”, a planning document states.
The application proposed to convert this flat and rear storage rooms into a nine-bed HMO. It has been refused as officers deemed “the proposals would not result in acceptable living conditions for future occupiers.”
There is already permission for its conversion into a seven-bed HMO. The rejected expansion, proposed by Stoke-based 5R Property Holdings Ltd, was based on not demolishing a rear flat roof extension of the building as planned, but creating two ground floor bedrooms inside, instead. Each would have had their own shower and cooking facilities.
The council’s environmental health and housing advised the smaller of the two extra bedrooms was only suitable for a one person residence. North Lincolnshire Council planning noted this, but viewed it as enforceable by housing law, so not a reason to refuse.
Its issue was the position of the rooms, and adjacent buildings and spaces. One of the en-suite bedrooms would have a north facing window with “very limited natural light” because of its direction, and overshadowing from the two storey parts of the building. It, and another window, would also face onto a ruined building to the north and derelict land in between.
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Original artice: https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe
