TWO schemes for houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in a Hampshire estate have been thrown out by a government planning inspector.

Both appeals were for HMOS in the Stanmore estate in Winchester.

One was by Mr Sohal, who had turned a home in Cromwell Road in Stanmore into a ten-bedroom shared property.

His scheme had previously been thrown out by Winchester City Council after eight letters were sent to Winchester City Council objecting to the plan by the Sohal family.

They were concerned with noise and waste, overdevelopment, inadequate amenity space, loss of affordable or family housing and erosion of character of the area.

Winchester City Council claimed he breached “planning control” on several occasions, and they issued two enforcement notices.

But Mr Sohal appealed this, but his appeal was thrown out by the planning inspectorate.

The inspectorate said: “I conclude that the appeal HMO, by reason of its scale, would be liable to cause unacceptable harm to the living conditions of nearby occupiers through noise and disturbance.”

The inspectorate has issued an enforcement notice following the decision, as students currently occupy the 10 bedroom HMO, and should be allowed to remain until the end of the academic year, and Mr Sohal has six months to comply with two enforcement notices.

Meanwhile, the planning inspectorate also dismissed a plan to change a home into a 8 bedroom HMO in Thurmond Road, Stanmore.

The planning inspectorate concluded that the plan would “conflict” with the emergent local plan that is set to be adopted in April, and would result in harm to the supply of family sized housing.

The inspectorate added it would harm living conditions of neighbours in terms of noise.