There is currently a live Prior Approval request to change the use of office space covering two floors immediately above a social club and nursery into residential dwellings through Permitted Development.
The entire building was purpose built as part of a Section 106 agreement designed to provide community space and offset some of the loss of employment when an old factory site was developed.
the developer created only a bare shell for the office space and marketed it poorly - the cost of fitting out made any small business occupation impossible (designed to show lack of interested parties)
There was a parking plan entered in the Planning application as a condition of discharge stating that the social club and office space would share 14 car parking spaces with the idea being that the office space was daytime use and the social club would use the spaces evenings and weekends.
the developer has now sold the freehold for the office space and a new owner is trying for permitted change of use and stating that the 14 spaces will be used by the dwellings.
Can they change parking allocation when it is a formal part of the planning consent? Should S106 protect the social club’s shared parking?
The entire building was purpose built as part of a Section 106 agreement designed to provide community space and offset some of the loss of employment when an old factory site was developed.
the developer created only a bare shell for the office space and marketed it poorly - the cost of fitting out made any small business occupation impossible (designed to show lack of interested parties)
There was a parking plan entered in the Planning application as a condition of discharge stating that the social club and office space would share 14 car parking spaces with the idea being that the office space was daytime use and the social club would use the spaces evenings and weekends.
the developer has now sold the freehold for the office space and a new owner is trying for permitted change of use and stating that the 14 spaces will be used by the dwellings.
Can they change parking allocation when it is a formal part of the planning consent? Should S106 protect the social club’s shared parking?
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