Site address:                   18 Addison Crescent, Oxford, OX4 4BD

Proposal:                        Change of use of dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a House in Multiple Occupation (Use Class C4). Provision of bin and cycle stores and creation of 2no. car parking spaces. (Amended plans)

Reason at Committee:     The application has been called into committee at the request of Councillors Tarver, Kennedy, Tanner, Munkonge, Chapman, Hayes, Curran, Taylor, Clarkson, Tidball, Azad and Smith due to concerns relating to density of HMOs in the area, overdevelopment, insufficient bathroom facilities, parking pressure and size of bedrooms.

Recommendation:

The West Area Planning Committee is recommended to:

1.     approve the application for the reasons given in the report and subject to the required planning conditions set out in section 12 of the report and grant planning permission

2.     agree to delegate authority to the Head of Planning Services to:

·       finalise the recommended conditions as set out in the report including such refinements, amendments, additions and/or deletions as the Head of Planning Services considers reasonably necessary.

The Committee considered an application (19/02547/FUL) for planning permission for the change of use of a dwelling-house (Use Class C3) to a House in Multiple Occupation (Use Class C4) and the provision of bin and cycle stores and creation of 2 no. car parking spaces.

The application was called into committee at the request of Councillors Tarver, Kennedy, Tanner, Munkonge, Chapman, Hayes, Curran, Taylor, Clarkson, Tidball, Azad and Linda Smith due to concerns relating to density of HMOs in the area, overdevelopment, insufficient bathroom facilities, parking pressure and size of bedrooms.

The Planning Officer presented the report and advised that some minor edits would be required to the conditions to correct typographical errors. It was requested that the wording of conditions be delegated to officers if permission was granted.

Imran Ahmed, the applicant, spoke in favour of the application.

In reaching its decision, the Committee considered all the information put before it.

After debate and on being proposed, seconded and put to the vote, the Committee agreed with the officer’s recommendation to approve the application.

The West Area Planning Committee resolved to:

1.       approve the application for the reasons given in the report and subject to the 5 required planning conditions and 1 informative set out in section 12 of the report and grant planning permission;

2.       delegate authority to the Head of Planning Services to:

·           finalise the recommended conditions as set out in the report including such typographical corrections, refinements, amendments, additions and/or deletions as the Head of Planning Services considers reasonably necessary.