This was an excellent and sensitively designed scheme in a conservation area and in the setting of a listed building but planning officers had recommended the proposal for refusal. There was plenty of public support which included the Parish Council and the local Wiltshire Councillor. At the planning committee RCC were amongst those speaking in support and we were delighted when councillors unanimously agreed to approve the application.
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In 2013 the Government introduced new permitted development rights to allow office buildings to be converted to residential use. This was for an initial temporary period of 3 years but they subsequently made the new rights permanent in 2016.
RCC was brought on board by PKA Architects when they were approached by a developer proposing a mixed use development on a vacant site in Devizes town centre. The site accommodated a single storey clinic building and car park but historically there would have been a building on the main road frontage
RCC were approached regarding the possibility of attaining planning permission for an additional dwelling in the garden of our clients’house. It was an extremely timely approach, as Wiltshire Council was in the process of changing their local planning policy document.
