By John Baron
Plans to transform the former Rupyal Restaurant in Stanningley into a shared household (HMO) with 16 bedrooms has been withdrawn by the applicant.
Developer Burley-based Watts & Co wanted to change of use of the Town Street building from a restaurant into 16 en-suite bedrooms with eight on the ground floor, five on the first floor and three in the converted loft space.Â
The bedrooms would have been serviced by a substantial kitchen, laundry, two store rooms, a communal dining hall/study and cinema/tv room in the basement. A further kitchen would have been on the first floor and a lounge/tv room on the second floor.
A planning statement submitted with the application shad argued there was adequate on-street parking available nearby and five parking spaces fronting onto Vernon Place.
A council highways officer’s report said: “The expected car parking provision … is eight spaces. These should be provided where possible within the site, so that the development doesn’t cause parking overspill.”
Read the withdrawn plans in full here.
What’s a HMO?
A House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is an entire house or flat which is let to three or more tenants who form two or more households and who share a kitchen, bathroom or toilet.
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It must be like the TARDIS in there to be able to fit all those rooms and such.
Glad to hear that plans have been withdrawn, I live near it.
It sounded like it wasn’t going to offer a very high quality of living space, but I’m surprised that its been withdrawn on parking grounds. The conversion of Farsley Liberal Club was approved without any on-site parking at all, relying on on street space which is already shared with surrounding businesses and dwellings.
16 bedrooms?!. Sounds like a, typical slum landlord cramming as many in as possible. Going back to the, days of Rachman.