Refused Cowley HMO extension goes to appeal | thisisoxfordshire
Oliver Road, Cowley, Oxford. Picture: Google Maps PLANS for an extension to Cowley house, turned down for being ‘overly bulky and contrived’, will now to go an appeal. Samuel Suraj wanted to build an extension to the first floor of 33 Oliver Road, Cowley, which is a house of multiple occupation, but was told by Oxford City Council planning chiefs that he could not. Mr Suraj had planned to build on top of the flat-roofed one-storey kitchen area to the rear of the house, creating a new bedroom above with a pitched roof. In a letter explaining why his application was turned down, the...