®Planning appeal decision
Unit 9, Riverside Court, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 3DZ
change of use of vacant office floorspace to create three self-contained flats on the first and second floors, with communal office floorspace on the ground floor
- Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Jones RE
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether or not the proposal would result in an unacceptable loss of employment space in the city
What decided it
The absence of robust or compelling economic reasons to justify the loss of office floorspace in an area subject to an Article 4 Direction, combined with Bath's significant net losses of employment space and the Council's unmet strategic employment targets.
The modest contribution to housing supply was outweighed by the unacceptable loss of employment space and the consequential harm to the Council's ability to meet its economic growth targets
Plan policies cited: Policy ED1B, Policy SB5, Policy B1, Policy KE1, Policy SV1
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