Flats scheme at former city centre office block refused
Proposals to convert a former office building in Wakefield city centre into flats have been refused.
Wakefield Council officers said some of the apartments planned for Prosper House failed to meet minimum size standards.
HOA Property Limited requested prior approval for the project at the two-storey premises on Upper Warrengate.
The scheme involved creating four one-bedroom flats on the ground floor and four on the first floor.
The application said each flat would contain a bedroom, a shower room with a shared living and kitchen area.
Cycle storage and bin storage areas were also included in the plan, along with a caretaker’s store room at ground floor level.
No external alterations to the property were proposed.
No information was provided relating to a car parking area outside the building.
Rejecting the plan, an officer’s report said: “The proposal fails to provide sufficient sized bedrooms for four of the eight flats, which would result in harm to the residential amenity of future occupants.”
The document said there was also “uncertainty” about heating and energy production for the property.
The scheme was also refused on the grounds that future residents could be affected by noise from external machinery servicing the building.