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DC/070097 - Conversion of existing three Bed / 2 Reception single dwelling into Eight Occupant House of Multiple Occupation (HMO), 2 The Grove, Cale Green, SK2 6QU.

Meeting: 27/09/2018 - Central Stockport Area Committee (Item 6)

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Conversion of existing three bed/2 reception single dwelling into eight occupant House of Multiple Occupation (HMO).

 

The Area Committee is recommended to grant planning permission.

 

Officer Contact: Pippa Brown on  0161 474 3531 or email: pippa.brown@stockport.gov.uk

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

In respect of plan no. 70097 for the conversion of an existing three bed/2 reception single dwelling into eight occupant House of Multiple Occupation (HMO) at 2 The Grove, Cale Green

 

a representative of the application spoke in support of the application.

 

It was then

 

RESOLVED – (5 for, 2 against, 3 abstentions) That the application be refused as the proposed development fails to satisfy the provisions of criteria (iii) and (vi) of Saved Policy CDH1.4 ‘Houses in Multiple Occupation’ of the Stockport Unitary Development Review, which requires HMO conversions:-

 

-       To not create such a concentration of houses in multiple occupation  in a particular area or intensity of occupation of the property concerned that the character of the area is adversely affected;

-       where parking is to be provided by the hard paving of the area in front of the dwelling, no less than 40% of that area should be landscaped to the satisfaction of the Council.