HMO bid resubmitted after planners reject eight-bed proposal

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A developer has submitted amended plans for a HMO (house in multiple occupation) in Newport after an intial bid was turned down.

Layton Property Limited has applied for planning permission to convert a four-bedroom house at 46 Corporation Road into a HMO for six people.

HMOs are typically properties for single, unrelated adults who have their own private bedrooms but share other areas such as kitchens, bathrooms or living rooms.

A previous application, to turn the property into an eight-bed HMO, was submitted by the same developer in July and rejected in October.

At the time, council planning officers said there was a “significant number of HMO rooms in the vicinity” and raised concerns this could “result in unacceptable and unneighbourly impact” through more noise and activity, and a “significant adverse impact upon the character of the area, residential amenity and social cohesion”.

The council planners also refused that application on flooding grounds, citing an “intensification of occupation in a flood-risk area” and the proposals for ground-floor bedrooms.

Following that decision, the applicant’s new proposals for a smaller HMO at the property no longer include new ground-floor bedrooms.

The application for the six-bed HMO is out for consultation until Thursday December 4, and can be viewed on the Newport City Council website under reference 25/0954.