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Allowed5 September 20243343781

29 Gloucester Avenue, Scunthorpe, DN16 2EA

Planning appeal 3343781 at 29 Gloucester Avenue, Scunthorpe, DN16 2EA (North Lincolnshire Council) was allowed on 5 September 2024 by Inspector Cooper P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the loss of the public house.

Demolition of public house and erection of a two-storey residential building consisting of 20 affordable homes, with associated cycle and car parking, bin storage, amenity space and landscaping

Authority
North Lincolnshire Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Cooper P
Postcode
DN16 2EA

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the loss of the public house
  • the living conditions of future occupiers with particular regard to private amenity space

What decided it

The viability assessment demonstrating that the public house could not realistically be reopened as a going concern, combined with the absence of any alternative use or interested parties, meant the residential development represented a suitable and positive use of a disused and dilapidated site in a residential area.

The limited conflict with Policy H5 regarding private amenity space was outweighed by the material considerations of bringing a long-closed community facility back into productive use as affordable housing, with no material harm to future occupiers' living conditions.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy CS22 of the North Lincolnshire Local Development Framework Core Strategy (2011)Policy H5 of the North Lincolnshire Local Plan (2003)

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