Plans to turn offices into flats have been rejected for not meeting space requirements.
Usman Javed applied to Crawley Borough Council for permission to turn the second floor of Pelham House in Broadfield Barton, Crawley, into two residential units.
The proposals said this would create six one-person flats.
These would each have had an open-plan kitchen and living room space, a bedroom and a shower room.
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The plans included secure cycle storage space on the ground floor, which would be kept as a commercial unit.
There would also be communal waste and recycling facilities for the flats.
But Crawley Borough Council rejected the plans saying the flats did not meet the minimum floorspace requirements.
It said the plans could not prove the development would not have an adverse impact on water resources in the area.
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