A resident has won a battle to prevent the house next door to him becoming an HMO after telling a planning panel he had suffered 'eight-and-a-half years of hell' from residents of one already in his street. Alan Phillips claimed he has already suffered verbal abuse from people smoking cannabis and making noise on his street.
Councillors on Salford’s planning and transportation regulatory panel rejected the bid to turn the two-bed home on Dronfield Road into a house of multiple occupation (HMO) for three people after hearing objections from Mr Phillips and Claremont ward councillor Michael Previtt. Mr Phillips told the panel about the horrific experience residents had endured from an existing HMO next to his home. If the application from Scarlett Womersley had been approved, Mr Phillips’ home would have been next to two HMOs.
“We have been kept awake from 12 midnight until 4am having to listen to the noise from the residents,” he said. “It’s not right that we should have yet another one next door. It’s not acceptable.
