BOURNEMOUTH council has awarded itself permission to replace a block of garages with three new houses.

The borough will demolish the 26 rental garages, set down an alley behind a house in Charminster Road, and replace them with three homes in a terrace and six off-road parking spaces. The borough’s report said: “Local authority records and Contact with those renting the garages in question showed only a small proportion are rented out for the parking of motor vehicles and where so, even fewer are used by adjacent residents.”