A FORMER care home in Newton Abbot could still be converted into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) as an updated application is submitted to Teignbridge planners.

Rosecroft Homes’ initial application - made up of two separate, but parallel, applications 25/01014/FUL and 25/01012/FUL - sought to convert Dunmore Residential Care Home into a large HMO was rejected by Teignbridge District Council (TDC) in August.

TDC said the proposals 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.

Undeterred, Rosecroft Homes have since returned with an updated application seeking to address the refusal and acquire permission to convert 28 and 30 Courtenay Road into several co-living, non self-contained units set across three floors.

According to the planning statement for the new application, the units ‘will be offered as a mix of ensuite studios or bedrooms with shared bathroom/shower room facilities’.

‘For the avoidance of doubt, the rooms will be rented as single occupancy on a furnished basis and targeted to professionals and key workers’, the statement adds.

A decision on 25/01831/FUL is expected on or before January 2

‘The proposed development represents an excellent opportunity to secure the reuse of the existing land and building for a high quality and much needed form of development’, the planning statement goes on to say.