Plans to turn a house overlooking a Bradford park into an 11-bed HMO have been refused, as some rooms “would not provide an acceptable standard of living.”
5 Selbourne Villas, opposite Lister Park and in the North Park Road Conservation Area, is currently a seven-bedroom house.
Earlier this year Selborne Property Developments Ltd submitted a planning application to convert the home into an 11-bedroom house in multiple occupation.
It would include two self-contained units in the basement space and nine bedrooms, which have access to four bathrooms set across three floors.
The application said the HMO would provide “much-needed shared housing in a sustainable, desirable location.”
Raising concerns about the standard of the basement rooms in the planned HMO, planning officers said: “The self-contained units in the basement are well below the minimum size required for single-storey dwellings.
“The windows that serve these units are below ground level, limiting the amount of natural light and outlook received by the basement flats. As a result, the basement flats would not provide an acceptable standard of living.
“There should be sufficient natural light during daylight hours to enable normal domestic tasks to be carried out without eyestrain.”
