City of York Council’s Planning Committee B approved the plans to convert 34 Fulford Place, off Hospital Fields Road, into a three-bed HMO.
Farrer Designs' application stated the property was close to transport links and shops and councillors heard there were no grounds to refuse the plans.
But Kenneth Fox, one of nine objectors to the plans, told councillors the plans amounted to turning a perfectly good family home into three rabbit hutches.
Plans approved on Thursday, October 17 sought permission to change the use of the apartment from a two-bed residential home into a HMO.
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