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05
Dec 2022
Plan to convert Glasshouses pub into holiday cottage rejected
A plan to convert a former Glasshouses pub into a holiday cottage has been refused.
The Birch Tree, at Lupton Bank, closed its doors back in March 2020 due to the covid pandemic.
In plans lodged to Harrogate Borough Council, Harrogate Architectural Ltd said the site had been marketed extensively without success.
The fresh proposal would have seen the empty public house converted into a two-bedroom holiday cottage.
However, the borough council rejected the plan on the grounds that the loss of the pub was “not justified”.
In a decision notice, the authority said:
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The site has already seen three cottages built under a previous planning permission, with the pub reduced in size.
In planning documents for the fresh proposal, the developer said the building had been put on the market without success.
It said:
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