31-33 Worsley Road, SWINTON, MANCHESTER, M27 5WN

1. 1.The proposed nine-person HMO would fail to provide an acceptable standard of residential amenity for future occupiers. The first-floor combined kitchen, dining and living space would serve as habitable communal accommodation but would have no external window, direct natural light or outlook. It would also function substantially as the principal circulation route to six bedrooms and the staircase, materially compromising its usability and quality as communal amenity space. The availability of a ground-floor communal room and compliance with minimum numerical HMO standards would not overcome the poor layout, aspect, daylight and functionality of the communal accommodation as a whole. The proposal would result in a substandard quality of accommodation that would be detrimental to the living conditions of future occupiers and is therefore contrary to Policies D5 and D7 of the Salford Local Plan: Development Management Policies and Designations, and Policies L2 and P3 of the National Planning Policy Framework. Article 35 Declaration The proposal would not improve the economic, social and environmental conditions of the area nor does it comply with the development plan and therefore does not comprise sustainable development. There were no amendments to the scheme, or conditions which could reasonably have been imposed, which could have made the development acceptable and it was therefore not possible to approve the application.

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

M27 5WN

Application type

Full planning permission

Scale / size

Medium

Parish

Habergham Eaves

Date validated

1 June 2026

Target decision date

20 August 2026

Application expires

27 July 2026

Case officer

Richard Byrne

Statutory period

80 days

Documents

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