Issue - meetings

1.     Z/2013/0178/62 – 62 Beech Heights (change of use from a dwelling to a four-bedroom House in Multiple Occupancy). 

            The Planning Officer reported that the site in question lay outside any defined HMO policy area or development node. The application had been assessed against planning policy HMO 5, which had established a ten percent maximum threshold for HMOs within any street outside a defined HMO area. It was reported that, within ‘Beech Heights’, there existed 81 dwellings/apartments, and that up to eight conversions to HMOs could be approved within policy. It was reported that had been one other approval in the street and that the application, if approved, would be the second within the ten percent limit. It was stated that the proposed change of use from a house to a four-bedroom HMO would have no detrimental impact upon the character of the area, nor on the amenity of neighbouring residents.

            The Committee granted approval to the application.