97 Sheridan Road
We are pleased to be able to inform residents that the
controversial planning application to convert 97 Sheridan Road into an HMO has
been turned down by Bath & North East Somerset Council's Development Control Committee on 29th August.
Twerton Councillor Tim Ball who addressed the meeting had
referred the item to the committee after receiving numerous comments from
residents concerning the scale of the application.
The application was rejected on the grounds of the amount
of parking problems that it would cause and on road safety issues and also
causing residential harm to the area. Members of the committee expressed
concern that this property formerly a 3 bedroomed family home was to become a
six bed HMO.
99 Sheridan Road
This application was for a four bedroomed HMO although we
laid the same concerns as 97 Sheridan Road, members of the Development Control Committee approved the application as they thought that the scale of the
development was less of a problem.
We have also asked for an urgent policy review on how the number
of current HMO units are counted by the planning department.
