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19
Aug
Former Knaresborough pub set for new lease of life
Plans to revive a former Knaresborough pub have been submitted to North Yorkshire Council.
The applicant, listed as Natali Amado, proposes to restore the former Board Inn to a pub, as well as convert part of the site into three one-bedroom houses and five one-bedroom flats.
The building, which is on the corner of Knaresborough High Street and Gracious Street, was sold in 2020.
The pub was vacant for two years before that, but the sale included planning consent to convert the site into a pub, four houses and two flats.
Several applications to vary conditions of the original planning permission have been submitted, but the latest plan appears to collate all proposed changes into one application and seeks approval for eight dwellings, rather than six.
Planning documents say:
The application is in retrospect as it is intended to incorporate all the works already undertaken following the implementation of previous planning permissions, as well as incorporating further improvements to the permitted schemes. The application also includes information that is intended to avoid the need for conditions to be attached to any permission.
The decision to submit this full application was taken following discussions with officers with a view to simplifying the situation, as the alternative is to vary four previous permissions and discharge conditions relating to those same four permissions, where many of the conditions are repeated across multiple permissions so the same information would require discharging more than once.
According to the application, the area that once facilitated the pub would be retained and brought back into commercial use as licensed premises.
Within the main body of the building, the ground, first and second floors would be converted into flats and outbuildings to the rear of the site would be transformed into three houses.
Plans add:
The previously underused function room and manager’s flat, plus the upper floors facing the High Street, are to be converted to form five flats. The outbuildings to the rear around the courtyard are to be converted into two compact houses.
The detached outbuilding at the rear will also be converted to a single house with a modest ground floor extension under the existing pitched roof link to the rear of the main building.
Changes to the appearance of the building's exterior will be limited, planning documents say, but windows, doors and roof slates will be replaced, and roof lights will be installed if the application is approved.
Two chimneys have already been removed due to structural concerns, while security lighting and fencing would be erected and garden areas would be created for each house.
The proposals say:
One of the original doorways has previously been replaced with a modern window, which is to be removed as part of this proposal to allow for the reinsertion of a glazed door. Also, the original stained-glass windows at ground floor that have been damaged by vandals have already been conserved and are now protected within a glazed panel and replacement frame.
The site from Gracious Street.
The proposals would add to Knaresborough's existing hospitality offering, as well as provide local employment opportunities and contribute to the local economy, plans add.
North Yorkshire Council will decide whether to approve the plans.
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