Plan to create supported living facility approved

The property in Trinity Road will be converted into eight self-contained flats

Plans to convert a large residential house into supported living accommodation have been given the go-ahead.

An application by Homemore Stay to create eight self-contained units at 30 Trinity Road was approved by North Yorkshire Council.

The building previously contained a seven-bed house in multiple occupation, alongside three self-contained flats.

Plans state the development would be managed by "on-site staff" between 08:00 and 18:00 seven days a week, with CCTV and on-call security outside of these times.

Planning officers said the measures were considered to be "an appropriate level of management to serve the proposed facilities".

The authority said a communal and training room, included as part of the scheme, would be delivered by registered charity, YMCA North Tyneside.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service an initial scheme had proposed converting the property into 11 units which were "significantly smaller than the nationally described space standards".

However, documents showed room sizes in the amended scheme would meet the necessary criteria.

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