Plans to convert a 1950s former family home that has ‘been allowed to grow out of control’ into an eight-bedroom house-share have been rejected. The private owner’s proposals for 90 Moss Vale Road in Stretford had already garnered opposition from local residents and councillors before they came to Trafford council’s planning committee.
Councillors said they have watched the property grow seemingly week by week and slammed the home’s design and the owner’s plans as ‘out of character’ and ‘wrong’. The plans were to turn the existing semi-detached, recently extended six-bedroom house into an eight-bedroom House of Multiple Occupancy (HMO).
Opposition to the plans centred around the recent extensions, possible future noise and disturbance from the address, the scale and quality of the accommodation there and the impact on the surrounding area. However, council officers said the accommodation proposed at the originally three-bedroom home met all council and nationally required standards and recommended the plans for approval.
