Update on plans to turn large former Blackpool guesthouse into private home
An application to change the use of a former guesthouse into a private house has been refused by planners in Blackpool.
The property at 38 Reads Avenue previously operated as Scotts Gueshouse but the applicants no longer used it for that purpose.
They applied for a change of use six years after permission was granted for the use of the property as a residential dwelling in 2020, including the removal of the front dormer and rear extension.
However, these works have not been carried out and are no longer proposed.
The property is a two-storey mid terrace building with double height bay window, paved front and roof dormer to front, and features a two-storey outrigger with roof space accommodation.
Despite the previous permission being granted, the planning officer decreed that the proposals were not acceptable.
The officer stated in a delegated report: “The use of the property as a single dwelling-house, with the retention of the non-original rear extension, would fail to provide an appropriate standard of residential accommodation due to the unacceptable lack of private outdoor amenity space.
“Furthermore, retention of the front dormer would enable a higher level of occupation which, given the absence of outdoor amenity space due to the retention of the extension, would result in further over-intensive use of the plot.”