PLANS to convert a small storage building into a home have been rejected.
The unit is on a separate plot to the adjacent former Royal British Legion club in Ashley Road, Springbourne, and can only be accessed via a narrow passage alongside 318 Windham Road.
A report by council officers states: "The council’s records show that the premises subject to this application were built as an extension to the British Legion club in the 1950s, for the storage of goods in association with this establishment."
Developer Churchfield Investments Ltd sought to confirm it had permitted development rights for its scheme, however officers said the firm had failed to satisfy specific legal conditions relating to the past use of the unit.
Three residents wrote to the borough to object. Gary Keeping, of Windham Road, said: "It is totally unrealistic to squeeze further occupants into this already overcrowded end of Windham road.
"This has all been covered before with this plan as well as in the objections to the overdevelopment to the old British Legion building this is attached to."
The conversion of the Legion building into flats was rejected by councillors in 2015 but subsequently allowed on appeal.
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