YEOVIL NEWS: Plans refused for The Tannery development

PLANS to turn an old gloving factory in Yeovil into 81 flats have been rejected by South Somerset District Council.

The council announced on Friday (February 17, 2017) that it had turned down an application for outline planning permission from Chardstock Management Services to turn The Tannery in Eastland Road into homes.

The site contains the Grade II listed shell of a former tannery and glove manufacturer. The main building was built over three floors with a timber infill and pitched roof over a fourth floor, although in recent years the top floor and roof of the building had been removed.

The application had asked for the go-ahead to demolish the buildings onsite and replace them with 81 flats – 37 one-bedroom and 44 two-bedroom properties – in a five-storey block, along with 54 car parking spaces.

But there have been a number of objections to the proposals with Yeovil Town Council concerned about the “overdevelopment of the site and inadequate parking” while the county highway authority was worried about the “increased traffic levels” generated by the proposals.

Andrew Collins, a planning officer at South Somerset District Council, said: “At five-storey in height the new build proposal is considered to be an overdevelopment of the site that is contrary to the character of the streetscene.”

Mr Collins said the plans would have an “unacceptable impact upon the future occupiers of the site” and as such the proposals “do not result in a high quality built environment.”

PHOTOS: The old Tannery building on the junction of Eastland Road and Reckleford in Yeovil.

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