PLANS have been approved to demolish a former bank and to build a new three storey building in its place.
South Lakeland District Council has approved plans to demolish the former Natwest building in Milnthorpe and create a mixed residential and retail development.
In the proposals, documents describe the development as follows: “The ground floor will be used as a retail property with customer access from the east end, off the broad area of paving at the junction of Main Street with Haverflatts Lane.
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“This will mirror the form of the shop building across Haverflatts Lane, with a traditional glazed display window and central entrance door.
“Each of the two upper floors will form self-contained residential flats. There will be a small single storey extension to the ground floor retail premises on the north elevation, and a small extension rising to roof level on the west elevation to provide staircase access to the flats.”
Documents stated that the proposed building ‘should offer no substantial harm to the character of the Conservation Area and be integrated with the surroundings’.
SLDC approved the development with 10 conditions.
Conditions included that the development should begin no later than three years from the date of the decision.
That no development shall take place, including any works of demolition, until a Construction Method Statement has been submitted to and been approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority
No development shall take place until details of a sustainable surface water drainage scheme and a foul water drainage scheme have been submitted to and been approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
No superstructure shall be erected until samples and details of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the development hereby approved have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
And the ground floor premises shall be used for retail and for no other purpose.
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