A FAMILY home will be converted into a house of multiple occupation to help ease the housing crisis.

The go-ahead has been given to turn a 2.5 storey house on Parkhills Road into a house of multiple occupation (HMO).

Applicant Heidi Reiss said: "We are creating a well run supporting HMO to help ease the housing crisis in Bury.

"We will accept local housing rates, we are not looking to run the HMO primarily for profit

"The house is our family home and we have lived there for 12 years, we have only recently moved out.

"We have a very large family and the house is set up to house 10 people, we have fostered many teenagers over the years.

"It is very large property and we plan to create two extra bathrooms to make four in total, the bedrooms are large, light and airy.

"It has huge potential to help people and we would like to maximise that opportunity.

"We plan to manage it ourselves and very hands on in support that we will provide to our tenants

"We would like to work with Bury to house suitable tenants."

Other plans approved by Bury's planning chiefs included rear and side extension at a house in Park Lane, Whitefield, a first floor extension at a house in Pleasington Drive, Bury, and a rear extension along with the development of an outbuilding at a property in Westcombe Drive, Bury.