Plans for TWENTY-EIGHT bed house 50 metres from Metrolink station

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Revised plans for a massive 28-bedroom shared house at a former glass showroom have been published. The proposal intends to convert the former Finefit premises on Church Street West, Radcliffe, into a huge house of multiple occupation, (HMO), with single occupancy.

The 516 square foot building is 50 metres from Radcliffe’s Metrolink stop and close to the town centre. In January this year, Bury council threw out similar plans for the building which proposed a 35-bed HMO with potential double occupancy.

Those plans were rejected after dozens of neighbours objected. Among the reasons the council gave for refusal were that the development would ‘be seriously detrimental to the residential amenities of nearby occupiers, due to noise, disturbance and general activity’. Join the Manchester Politics WhatsApp group here Other issues were the lack of any off street parking and that the ‘density and layout as shown would lead to a poor arrangement of individual and shared accommodation’.

The revised application, submitted by Stephen Kerfoot, addresses the reasons for the previous refusal. A planning statement, said: “The number of bedrooms has been reduced from 35 to 28, all en‐suite. “Larger communal internal and external areas included within the application.