People in town ‘fed up’ with increasing numbewr of HMOs
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Multiple objections have been submitted to a series of planning applications for the conversion of properties in Wigan into shared housing – known as HMOs.
Since July, conversions of family homes into Houses of Multiple Occupation across the entire borough require planning permission as a result of an outcry in the town against what some say are too many such properties.
Known as an Article 4 direction, prior to July, only conversions in the Leigh and Swinley areas needed planning consent.
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Now, a number of such submissions have appeared on the Wigan council planning portal.
A retrospective application has been tabled for a property to house five people on Mabel Street in Pemberton, against which 14 objections have been lodged.
A further four letters of objection have been sent, requesting that an application for a property on Ormskirk Road, which would accommodate five people, be refused.
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One objection has been received against a request for a certificate of lawful development for the existing use of a property as a four-bed HMO on City Road, which is also in the Pemberton area.
Another five people have objected to the change of use of a five-bedroom house in Frog Lane, in the Standish and Haigh area of Wigan, to accommodate five people.
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