Barker Perry Town Ltd submitted a planning application to Havering Council on behalf of a Mr J Murphy to increase the capacity of the HMO at 88 Eastern Road that currently houses up to six people.
The decision to deny planning permission was made on July 11.
In the reasoning behind the refusal, the council claimed the rear parking spaces would “lead to noise and disturbance in the rear garden, harmful to the amenity of neighbouring properties, particularly 86 Eastern Road” as well as “increase danger to pedestrians given limited visibility”.
The proposed 10 car parking spaces in the rear garden of the site were deemed to exceed the maximum car parking provision.
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The council also noted the communal amenity space to be of “poor quality and usability” and “inadequate to meet the needs of future occupiers given its limited depth and size”.
This would prove to be “harmful” to the amenity of future occupiers, it said.
In March 2024, Havering Council issued a certificate of lawful proposed development confirming the use of this property as a HMO did not require planning permission.
Had the most recent plans been accepted, the existing single storey rear extension would have been demolished and replaced with a new one to provide “improved kitchen and communal space” as well as the five new rooms according to planning documents.
The new extension was proposed to be at a lower level to “reduce the height of the scheme adjacent to the neighbour’s boundary” and set off from the mutual boundary to “reduce any impact” and “improve the relationship between the properties”.
Planning documents said this approach was in response to the refusal of prior approval for a larger extension where concerns were raised about the impact on loss of light and overshadowing to the rear wall of No. 86.
