PLANS to turn a seven-bedroom House of Multiple Occupation (HMO) into two self-contained residential apartments has been refused.

Plans to have two apartments for five people on 83 Locking Road have recently been turned down by North Somerset Council after a site-specific flood risk assessment.

A planning document read: “The site is within flood zone 3a.

“The submitted FRA does not comply with the requirements for site-specific flood risk assessments, as set out in paragraphs 20 to 21 of the Flood Risk and Coastal Change planning practice guidance and its site-specific flood risk assessment checklist.

“The FRA does not therefore adequately assess the flood risks posed by the development, and it cannot therefore not be reasonably discerned that users of this change of use would be safe for its lifetime.

“For this reason, the proposal remains contrary to Policy CS3 of the North Somerset Core Strategy, Policy DM1 of the Sites and Policies Plan (Part 1) and Section 14 of the NPPF.”

The existing end terraced property at 83 Locking Road, is a three-storey, seven-bedroom HMO dwelling house with a frontage area providing four off-road parking spaces and a recycling/waste bin collection area.