The application by Trinity Care and Education Services Limited for the three-bedroomed property in Epping Avenue, Altham, had sparked alarm from a senior councillor over the ‘mushrooming industry’ of such conversions.
Consideration of the Epping Avenue application had been deferred while borough planning manager Simon Prideaux took legal advice before preparing a full report for the September meeting on Wednesday last week. “It would not, however, meet the test ‘residents living together as a single household’. The carers would not be truly living at the property in a way which would form a single household with the children.Edward Smethurst, chairman of Altham Business Park-based Trinity Care, spoke in favour of the granting of the certificate while a local resident spoke against.