AN application to covert a former care home in Newton Abbot into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) has been rejected by planners.

25/01014/FUL and 25/01012/FUL had sought permission to convert Dunmore Residential Care Home into a HMO.

The applications proposes turning the Courtenay Road building into several co-living, non self-contained units set across three floors.

It also included provision for two self contained flats on the lower ground floor.

But Teignbridge District Council (TDC) refused to grant permission, saying it would result in ‘poor residential amenity’ experienced by the future occupiers of some on the rooms by virtue of restricted access to natural light.

The council also cited on-street parking, or, rather, lack thereof, as a reason for its refusal.