Following multiple failed expansion bids, Luccombe Manor has been granted approval for 3 new bedrooms providing high end accommodation with garden access.
Luccombe Manor Country House Hotel, on the edge of Shanklin Old Village, wants to create 2 standard rooms and the first wheelchair accessible room.
Submitted by Steve Wells of Garden Isle Hotels’, plans were approved by the Isle of Wight Council on Monday.
Just last month the Planning Inspectorate dismissed an appeal by Garden Isle Hotels over a rejected application to add a 10-bedroom extension and 3 ground-floor bedrooms to the 3-star hotel.
The development was refused for the third time by County Hall in January due to its ‘visually dominant’ and ‘intrusive’ appearance.
Explaining its grounds for dismissing the appeal, the inspectorate said the plan would have a harmful effect on the character and appearance of the host building and of the area.
The rooms approved yesterday will be on the ground floor of Luccombe Manor’s extension at the southernmost point of the site. They will be next to a bar and will replace a seating area along with a recreational room and office.
2 windows at the rear of the extension would be replaced with french doors to allow access to the garden.
A submitted Design, Access and Heritage Statement written by Nova Architectural said:
“The proposal sets out to create high end and high value accommodation for patrons to Luccombe Manor.
“The proposal put forward allows for high quality tourism through the year, with provisions to utilise both Luccombe Hall’s & Luccombe Manor’s services in tandem”.
Justifying its approval, a council report said Garden Isle Hotels’ plans would promote tourism-related development with minimal impact on the part of Luccombe Manor in question.
It also found no reason to object on parking provision and highway grounds or those relating to trees, ecology and the Solent Special Protection Area.
The council attached 2 conditions to its approval: development is started within 3 years of permission being granted and is completed according to submitted plans.
So many homeowners carry out works with NO
planning permission, seems to be a case of what
Planning don’t see, they don’t know.
Planning is a funny old game, in the current economic
climate businesses need all the help they can get,
they pay extortionate rates, so let them expand.
Every little helps