This Victorian semi-detached building in Tonbridge Road could become a 10-bed HMO with an additional basement flat<\/p>\n
The target is the former Staffline office building at 10 Tonbridge Road.<\/p>\n
The developer is seeking to add a single-storey rear extension and a first-floor rear extension to create the extra rooms.<\/p>\n
It proposes two bedrooms and a kitchen on the second floor; three bedrooms and a kitchen on the first floor and five bedrooms and a kitchen\/diner on the ground floor.<\/p>\n
In addition, it will create a one-bedroom flat in the basement.<\/p>\n
Qualis insists it will provide quality accommodation for single professionals, who will be heavily vetted before being granted a tenancy.<\/p>\n
It says all the rooms will be larger than the minimum standard in law, and will be well equipped with en-suite facilities and a \u201ctea-point.\u201d<\/p>\n
The communal areas would be professionally cleaned once a week.<\/p>\n
However, no parking places will be provided – excused by the site\u2019s closeness to the town centre – and no outdoor amenity space either. Currently, the building has four parking spaces.<\/p>\n
Light to the basement flat would come via a light well and windows opening onto an enlarged below-ground courtyard.<\/p>\n
Maidstone Borough Council is currently consulting on a new Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) to better regulate HMOs. The consultation can be found here <\/a>and it closes on Sunday, April 27.<\/p>\n The policy proposes measures to require one parking place per bedroom, to require the adequate provision of outdoor amenity space for residents to gather together and for the drying of clothes, and to limit the over-concentration of HMOs in one area.<\/p>\n The Qualis proposal has several other HMOs nearby – a 10-bed HMO at 3 Terrace Road, a 7-bed HMO at 9 Terrace Road, a nine bed HMO at 7 Reginald Road, a 12-bed HMO at 1 Reginald Road, and a 7-bed HMO that has been granted planning permission but is not yet built at 3A London Road. All are within 200m of the site.<\/p>\nThe owners of 466 Loose Road want to add another bedroom to the 13-bed HMO<\/p>\n