Plans to turn a former city Army Cadets centre into a care home for vulnerable adults have been rejected due to creating "substandard" conditions for residents.
Norwich City Council denied an application to convert the interior of the Cadet Training Centre in Hilary Avenue, near Mousehold Heath, into rooms for six live-in occupants.
The two-storey building is currently being used as storage for a home insulation business and its owner, Neil Farrow, put forward the care home proposal in May.
Explaining its reason for refusal, the council said: "The proposal to use obscure glazing on the first-floor bedroom window on the west compromises the outlook for future residents.
"Furthermore, the proposed development failed to provide a satisfactory external amenity space that could accommodate their needs.
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"It would therefore provide a substandard level of residential amenity for occupiers."
Changing the community facility to a care home would also have a "detrimental impact" on nearby homes, according to planning officials, because of the disruption that workers and ambulances coming and going would cause.
According to the Norfolk Record Office, the cadets' centre was built for the MOD between June 1994 and January 1995.
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