Holiday flats plan for empty Tanner Row restaurant

39 Tedder Road

A planning application has been submitted which – if successful – would see the upper floors pf the former Derios restaurant at 39 Tanner Row into to 3 self contained holiday lets.

There would also be single storey extensions to rear ground and first floors and the installation of anew kitchen ventilation system to a new ground floor restaurant

The Grade II listed property has been empty for 8 years and is currently in poor condition.

A design statement submitted with the application says

“Formerly a public house, built around 1840, 39 Tanner Row ceased trading as pub in 1978 and was converted to a restaurant. It remained as a restaurant, under various owners until finally closing in 2016. The building has been empty since this time and is now in a poor state of repair. The building has suffered from several unsympathetic interventions that adversely affect the condition of the building and its historic significance. Throughout the building there is damp ingress on the external walls which has resulted in damage to the internal finishes, the loss of historic fabric and extensive areas of mould growth. The main roof is no longer watertight and allows water ingress during inclement weather.

The existing mechanical and electrical services are outdated, unsafe and in need of a full replacement. On all floors the finishes to the floors, walls and ceilings are in a poor condition with areas of damage. There is also damage to the timber frames and sashes of the windows. Unsympathetic 20th century interventions have damaged the legibility and significance of the historic staircase. In its current condition the building cannot be occupied and is not fit for use.

The applicant is the new owner of the property and intends making a significant financial investment to bring the building into a good state of repair. The proposed works are intended to minimise loss of historic fabric, remove unsympathetic modern interventions, reinstate lost historic features (where there is sufficient evidence to support this) and carry out repairs in accordance best practice guidance from Historic England and other bodies. These changes will secure a viable long-term future for the building.

At ground level, an existing low quality extension to the rear of the building will be demolished, removing the current kitchen and wash-up area together with an outside store. A new single-story extension will be created to provide an enlarged restaurant seating area, kitchen and WC. The ground floor will be fully refurbished including a full renewal of the heating, lighting and electrical services to provide a high quality commercial space. To the rear of the yard the extension will provide covered bicycle storage and an area for waste and recycle bins”

Upper floors of Spurriergate property to be converted into flats

The trend otwards providing living accomodation in the upper floors of shops in the City centre is gaining momentum.

A planning application has been submitted for Goldsmiths at 12-16 Spurriergate which would see a change of use of the upper floors from offices to 2 self-contained holiday lets with external alterations including a new shop front and entrance

The building is a four-storey Grade II listed building with a shop a ground floor and former offices at first, second and third floors,

According to a statement submitted by the developers,

“The proposed scheme involves changing the use of the upper floors to holiday apartments, introducing a new timber staircase and modifying the shop frontto create a new access.

Secondary glazing will be introduced and other associated internal alterations will be carried out to bring the apartments up to contemporary living standards. These proposed works have been thoughtfully considered to minimize any potential harm to the heritage significance of the listed building.

All floors will be refurbished, including the complete renewal of services and the introduction of Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR). Changes at ground floor level involve modifying the shop front to incorporate a new separate entrance for the upper floor apartments, removing a modern staircase and part of a suspended ceiling to accommodate a new timber staircase.

On the first floor, alterations will include the removal of the modern kitchen and WCs, and new partitions will create a one-bed apartment. On the second and third floors the proposed alterations will create a three-bed, duplex apartment.

Repairs will be made to the external fabric of the rear elevation and all historic windows

£77,000 on offer to manage Front Street and City centre open spaces projects

The York Council are advertising two new posts to project manage improvements to Front Street and City Centre open spaces. . Applications for the posts are only curently open to existing Council employees.

The Council is trying to recuit:

• A Regeneration Project Manager to lead and manage the delivery of a City Spaces Framework and to develop business cases/funding applications for different work packages and schemes that sit within our wider regeneration programmes.  This role requires an experienced regeneration practitioner to work proactively and collaboratively with a wide range of Council officers and members, city partners and stakeholders and the new York & North Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. 
• A Regeneration Project Co-ordinator to provide practical day-to-day support and project co-ordination across our regeneration work programme, including the York ‘Our City Centre’ vision and action plan, and Acomb Front Street regeneration project.  This role requires an experienced project administrator to proactively lead tasks such as risk and action monitoring, project planning/reporting and financial tracking, as well as a confident communicator who is comfortable dealing with a wide range of project stakeholders.

In total they will be paid around £77,000 pa. The source of funding is unclear although the Front Street project curently has an improvement budget of £570,000

The Council has so far remained tight lipped about the results of a consultation which they undertook on the options for Front Street.

Further details of the new jobs can be found via this link

Latest planning applications for the Westfield Ward

Below are the latest planning applications received by the York Council for the Westfield ward.

Full details can be found by clicking the application reference

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105 – 107 Front Street York YO24 3BU

Prune 1no. Holly to reshape to ball – tree in a conservation area 

Ref. No: 24/00456/TCA 

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99 Front Street York YO24 3BU

Condition 8 of 23/00325/FUL (archaeology report)*

Ref. No: AOD/24/00064 

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Representations can be made in favour of, or in objection to, any application via the Planning online website.  http://planningaccess.york.gov.uk/online-applications/

The Council does not routinely consult neighbours by letter when an application is received

*The aim of the trial trenching was to gather sufficient information to allow the YCA to make a reasonable and informed decision on the significance of any archaeological remains and the appropriate requirements to record such remains prior to destruction (mitigation phase).Specifically, the evaluation was to establish if the site contains any significant remains of the Roman period or of medieval settlement in Acomb.

No significant items were found. The report explain why a trial dig was ccnsidered necessary. The report may be of interest to local historians

“This plot is situated within the Acomb Area of Archaeological Importance (AAI) which broadly describes the medieval settlement and also has the potential to contain Roman archaeological deposits by virtue of its location in the vicinity of the Roman fortress and settlement at York.

The current A59, over 1km to the north of the site follows the course of a Roman road; a mosaic pavement was uncovered in the 19th century behind Acomb House, and a surface scatter of omano-British pottery sherds of 2nd to 4th-century date has been recorded at Bachelor Hill (Jackson 2018).

Although Acomb is now a suburb of the City of York, it originated as a village within the township of Acomb and Holgate. The village developed from an early focus on the Church of St Stephen at the north-eastern end of the village, to a linear settlement along Front Street with crofts and tofts extending to the north and south.

The church was rebuilt in the 19th century and most of the earliest buildings surviving are of 18th-century date.

The exceptions to this are 14 and 16 Front Street which are timber-framed and date to the 15th or 16th centuries. White Row on the south side of Front Street is a row of five houses originally built-in c. 1691 but largely rebuilt in 1921.”

Lendal Bridge “recovery hub”, Children’s Nursery “TIPI’s” on Boroughbridge Road and a house extension in Osbaldwick all hope to gain planning approval next week

Planning committee Councillors are being urged t approve three planning applications at their meeting next week. Click headings for more details

The Environment Agency, Ground Floor, The Hub Station, Wellington Row, York (Lendal Bridge)

This involves a change of use of ground floor office space to a ‘Recovery Hub’ community centre

The host property is a two-storey grade II listed building originally constructed in the early 20th century as an electricity substation. It is situated in the Central Historic Core conservation area next to Lendal Bridge on the west bank of the River Ouse.

The building was previously in use as a public drop-in centre/exhibition space with ancillary office accommodation used by the Environment Agency and has been vacant since September 2022.

 Permission is sought to repurpose the existing ground floor space as part of a community centre ‘Recovery Hub’ operating from the whole property, including the first floor, which already sits in the relevant use class. This application therefore relates to change of use class for the ground floor only. Works to the building would be restricted to renewal of interior décor. There are no proposed changes to the fabric of the building.

The proposed new use of the property as ‘York Recovery Hub’ is to serve as a venue to enable people with both direct and indirect lived experience of substance use disorders to have an important role in helping more York residents enter, establish and sustain recovery.

The Recovery Hub’ would be used to host:

• · a wide range of activities to support social connections, improvements in health and wellbeing and confidence in life in recovery, including employment
• · mutual aid group meetings, including for family members affected by someone else’s substance use
• · opportunities to meet and find out about local services / employers
•  · access to counselling / therapy groups / recovery coaching, drawing on a range of approaches to recovery. 1.5 The Hub would be open 7 days a week from 7am-10pm.

The application is in the name of the York Council and is recommended for approval. 67 letters of support have been received. There hss been one objection from the York Rowing Club (which has premises nearby) The objection mainly concerns a lack of consultation and fears of anti-social behaviour.

2 Muddy Boots, The Gardens, Boroughbridge Road, York,

Change of use of land to open air recreational space and erection of 2 Tipis with associated access and landscaping. 

The application site is Muddy Boots Nursery, where a former agricultural building has been converted and is in use as a children’s preschool nursery providing general childcare. Adjacent to the nursery buildings, the application site includes an existing outdoor play area enclosed by post and rail fencing and an open field to the southwest. The site area is approx. 1.54 hectares. The application site is located in the Green Belt. Access to the site is from the A59 via a shared private drive serving the nursery and two adjacent houses.

The proposals relate to the change of use of land to form an open-air recreational space and the erection of two tipis, with associated access and landscaping. The tipis would be erected on a temporary basis for a period of 5 years.

The two adjoining tipis would be located in the north-east part of the field, adjacent to the nursery building and existing outdoor play area. The tipis are of a relatively large scale, mass and footprint. The tipis would be approx. 7.4m in total height, and approx. 6.8m in height to the head of the canvas part of the tents. The tipis would be approx. 10.3m in length. With the sides down, the total width of the tipis would be approx. 20.6m, and with the sides up, the total width of the tipis would be approx. 26m. The applicant has confirmed that there would be no fixed play equipment on the site, with only natural resources used for activities such as den building, assault courses, bug hunts etc. Toilet provision for the forest school would be via two portable toilets located adjacent to the north field boundary. At the time of the site visit, a single tipi or cone shaped tent was in situ in the field to the south[1]west of the nursery building, with two portable toilets adjacent.

The purpose of the proposals is to enhance the existing nursery provision with the opportunity for outdoor play in a ‘forest school’ setting. The tipi structures are intended to provide an interesting and exciting place for children to learn and explore. The proposals would enable 16 children from the Muddy Boots nursery in Acomb to travel by minibus to attend sessions at the forest school. This would in turn create additional early years and childcare places in the Acomb nursery setting.

The application is recommended for approval

3. 34 Tranby Avenue, Osbaldwick, York,

 This application is for a dingle storey front/rear extensions and two-storey side extension.

The application has been “called in” for committee consideration following concerns that the enlarged building could d be used as an HMO, with consequent adverse impacts on parking and highway access arrangements in the street.

Several major planning decisions are due to be made in York next week

Concern changes to British Sugar, Plantation Drive housing site, St Peters School sports facilities and a Foss Islands Road student flats plan.

St Peters School (sports facilities)

Update: We understand that the planning application has now been withdrawn

Earlier: Planning officials are recommending the refusal of an application by the school which would have seen the erection of a floodlit hockey pitch and tennis/netball courts, cricket nets, resurfacing and floodlighting to an existing hockey pitch plus associated access, car parking, coach drop-off, storage and landscaping 

Officials argue that the development is technically in the Green Belt at the moment. There are also concerns about traffic generation in what otherwise is a residential area.

Further details can be viewed via this link

British Sugar (houses)

Developers are seeking changes to the already agreed planning conditions on this long-delayed housing site. The changes involve providing more green infrastructure, increased building heights, updates to the detailed configuration of the proposed Main Street access road, alterations to the drainage strategy plus updates to approved illustrative phasing plans

The changes – which are relatively minor – are recommended for approval. More details can be viewed by clicking this link

There is no clue in the papers as to when building works on this site may begin. In total, the site is expected to accommodate around 1100 additional homes.

Enterprise cars Foss Islands Road (Student flats)

This application concerns the erection of a 3, 4, and 5 storey student accommodation buildings with associated car parking and access following the demolition of existing buildings 

It is effectively a rerun of an application which was refused a few months ago on the grounds that the site was needed for “employment” purposes. The existing buildings on the site have been vacant for some time.

The building would be 3-storey fronting the inner ring road / Foss Islands Road, stepping up to 5-storey at the rear towards Elvington Terrace. The accommodation would comprise 133 rooms including 7 fully accessible studios. rooms. There would be communal social spaces on the ground floor and each of the upper floors.

It is recommended for approval

More details can be read by clicking this link

More homes proposed for Council’s low-energy, 100% affordable Ordnance Lane site

A new planning application is proposing an extra 16 low-energy, 100% affordable homes at the Council’s Ordnance Lane site, to be set in even more green space.

Following Executive’s decision in November 2023 to build 100% affordable homes off Fulford Road, these zero-carbon in use homes are proposed to increase in number from 85 to 101.

To create these extra 16 homes, the number of larger properties for mixed generation households will be reduced. The space will instead be used to create more in-demand one- and two-bedroomed homes which will all be offered in a variety of affordable tenures.

The 90 new-build homes are all designed to meet Passivhaus standards. This will reduce residents’ heating and cooling requirements by 75% when compared with average new builds. The 11 new homes in the Victorian married quarters building will be refurbished and retrofitted to a high environmental standard.

Renewable energy will be generated on site using, for example, photovoltaic roof panels. Low-energy heating measures in the homes will include air source heat pumps. All help to reduce carbon footprint and residents’ energy bills.

Across the development, wildlife and urban garden plots will help drainage and reduce overheating risks expected from climate change. A minimum 145 new trees – including fruiting varieties – will be planted and four existing mature trees will be kept. Residents will also be given planters and growing spaces on balconies and in shared gardens where they can meet and help build a thriving community.

Community comes together to support Village Hall refurbishment

When Osbaldwick Village Hall put out an SOS for building materials, the community the York trade community responded.

Cllr Mark Warters and Mark Armour of Burton Roofing Group

The original building was a methodist chapel built in 1871 but was utilised for community purposes and housed a nursery which folded in 2021, leaving the hall empty.

The Parish Council took over and began a project starting in October 2023 to expand and refurbish the facility starting in. It became clear that the single storey extension built in the 1970s was structurally unsound so the opportunity was taken to demolish and replace with a two storey building and mezzanine floor in the original building.

The team asked local suppliers to donate materials to support the project and were astounded at the response. Councillor Mark Warters explains: “We’ve been delighted with the response, from kitchens to bricks and electrical supplies to roofing materials, local businesses have been incredibly generous with their time and resources.

“The extension is sympathetic to the original style of the Victorian building using similar products and reclaimed bricks. A date stone carved by York Minster stonemasons will be added to the front of the new extension and when finished inside the building there will be a plaque highlighting all the businesses who have generously supported the project.

“The village hall will be a valuable resource which will house a nursery and provide a versatile space for community events and a meeting place for a wide range of groups.”

Ian Leigh, managing director of Burton Roofing Group, one of the business that have donated materials, said: “Suppliers to the building trade play an important role in the development and maintenance of our towns and cities and this was a nice opportunity for us to give back to the communities that support us and buy from us across our branch network.

“We were delighted to supply xxx from our branch in Sheffield and support this great community project.”

Other business that have supported the project include Selco, Howdens who are donating a kitchen, CEF are donating electrical supplies and A1 Haulage have done a number of free waste removal jobs.

A local windows company is providing a generous discount on window supplies and Hanson concrete supplies did us a favourable rate when the footings were poured. The Handmade Brick Co supplied white ‘special’ bricks at a discounted rate and a local tree surgeon has supported us with demolition and groundworks.