Sandbanks developer's plans to turn garage into Airbnb rejected

A Sandbanks developer's four year battle to turn a tiny garage near into an Airbnb has been thwarted for a third time.

Peter Mullins has tried and failed to get permission to redevelop his 19 foot-wide garage in Poole, Dorset, after buying the property for £600,000 in 2021.

A planning application in 2021 to add two storeys to the garage to create a pair of semi-detached houses was dismissed at appeal. Then in 2022, a conversion and extension to create two flats was also refused.

And in his latest attempt to redevelop the property, Mr Mullins had sought to demolish the garage and turn it into a dwelling to create a £1million Airbn...
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