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12
Jun
Plan approved to replace village hall near Boroughbridge with housing
A plan to demolish a disused village hall near Boroughbridge and replace it with housing has been approved.
Developer One North Property Ltd, a Northallerton-based company, submitted the plans to North Yorkshire Council for Cundall Village Hall.
The proposal will see the hall demolished and replaced with two semi-detached, three bedroom homes and parking garages.
A council report said the current village hall was “not in use and is in a poor state of repair”.
Now, the authority has approved the proposal.
Planning documents say the two-storey buildings would “achieve a good standard of design” and would reflect the character of other properties in Cundall village.
One North Property also plans to build a third house on a plot of land adjacent to a cottage that neighbours the village hall. It would be a detached property with a similar layout as the planned village hall site.
In a planning statement to the council, the developer said:
Overall, it is submitted that the development proposals would result in a good quality development designed to respect the unique characteristics of Cundall without resulting in adverse impacts that would outweigh the benefits from the development.
A letter from estate agent Savills says the site was gifted to the community by the trustees of the Cundall Estate in 1965. Its use as a village hall has dwindled over the last 15 years, the agent says, adding it has been redundant for a decade.
The trustees decided to sell the property in 2020, when Savills was appointed, with the intention of maintaining its community use.
The unit is considered “unviable” as a village hall, according to planning documents, and the funding required to repair it and bring it back to community use would “discourage any future re-use”.
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