Plans Unveiled for Conversion of HMO into Family Home
An application submits itself to planning review, targeting the transformation of a nine‐bedroom edifice—currently defined by its use as a multiple occupation dwelling—into a residence for one family; the structure stands as a three‐storey semi-detached unit in Hove and exhibits capacity for nine distinct individual occupancies.
Owned from the 1970s by an educational institution, the property underwent a change of title; the new proprietor envisions spatial reordering that reassigns roles within the building into an expansive, single-family environment. The proposal stipulates that the ground floor will support a reception domain, a culinary space, a utility chamber, and a dining segment while upper levels will allocate seven personal chambers and several bathing facilities.
Design documentation details that external architectural elements—namely the brickwork combined with white-painted pebbledash, the arrangement of sash windows, and the frontal patio—remain fixed in position; a considerable rear garden stands integrated in the plan to improve the available outdoor domain for future inhabitants.
The planning document asserts that the conversion, albeit extensive in its internal rearrangements, leaves untouched the inherent character of the surrounding area, which is dominated by dwellings intended for single-family occupancy; the reordering balances residential typologies and contributes to a stable local spatial matrix.
A procurement at auction for £725,000 reinforces the building’s advertised potential as a candidate for conversion into a single-family dwelling, pending the fulfillment of all statutory permissions.
In synthesis, the proposed reformation of a multiple occupation establishment into a monofamilial home substantiates an investment into spacious, tailored residential accommodation within a community that largely maintains such housing configurations, while preserving the building’s extant external charm through deliberate, proximity-bound lexical connections.
