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Oct 2022
Last Updated: 05/10/2022
Plan to convert Glasshouses pub into holiday cottage
The Birch Tree at Lupton Bank in Glasshouses closed its doors in March 2020. Developers now want to convert the pub into a holiday cottage.
The Birch Tree at Glasshouses.
Plans have been submitted to convert a former pub in Glasshouses into a holiday cottage.
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 site has already seen three cottages built under a previous planning permission, with the pub reduced in size.
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The fresh proposal would see the empty public house converted into a two-bedroom holiday cottage.
In planning documents, the developer said:
“These premises have now remained empty since March 2020 when the previous tenant walked away due to the pandemic.
“Since that time two agents have marketed the property including a specialist in selling public houses, for a period of seven months.
“Since that time the applicant has continued his own marketing, all without success.”
Harrogate Borough Council will make a decision on the proposal at a later date.
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