Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you in the area.
Search the Public Notice Portal What is the Public Notice Portal?What is the Public Notice Portal?
The Public Notice Portal carries statutory public notices published in local newspapers and is the fastest and most effective way of finding out what is happening in YOUR neighbourhood.
Search the Public Notice PortalHerefordshire Council is seeking permission from itself to turn barns at a farm it owns into five houses.
The council’s planning application (number 263104) explains the “sympathetic” conversion proposal relates to five traditional barns, one of which is grade II listed, at Monkton Farm, Ocle Pychard between Hereford and Bromyard.
Two of the five would each be divided into two, a third would become a stand-alone house, the two smaller barns would become garages, while a new structure would provide further garaging, accompanying plans show.
RELATED NEWS:
- More plans revealed for historic hotel being brought back from brink
- Large parts of landmark city bank to be mothballed under new plans
- Planners rule on transformation of long-derelict manor house
The application explains that the buildings “are redundant from modern farming operations and are limited to storage of sundry agricultural items”, being of a scale which renders them “unsuited to current agricultural practices”.
An accompanying heritage statement says that given the heritage value of all the buildings, “there is a clear policy support for any optimum viable reuse and for the necessary changes to allow such reuse in order to ensure [their] long-term future”.
OTHER NEWS:
- City 'saturated by unused office space' as owner punts new use at historic spot
- Mystery of 27 council e-bikes worth £88k that seem to have vanished
- Couple say big new plans will make long-closed historic pub viable again
Other more modern buildings at the farm have also been considered for domestic conversion, the application adds, and claims the proposal would not adversely impact on the existing cottages at the farm.
Comments on the application can be made until December 3, with a decision due by the end of the month.
Herefordshire Council sold off most of the county farms it owned around a decade ago, but said in 2023 it intended to retain ownership of Old Monkton Farm, while seeking a tenant for it.
Share