Property description

SALE BY AUCTION 10 NOVEMBER, 2015 - LANDMARK DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY - The Old Library has approval for change of use to residential under application number 14/3059/PNRES dated 4 November, 2014 and plans are drawn for a mews style development of three 2-bedroom bungalows each with parking. Alternatively the property still represents a valuable stand alone turn-key investment option in its existing fully functional use - namely high profile spacious offices! FREEHOLD. STOURPORT OFFICE 01299 822060. To be offered for sale by Public Auction, subject to prior sale, special conditions and reserve at Hogarths Stone Manor Hotel, Stone, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. DY10 4PJ on Tuesday 10 November, 2015 at 6pm


DESCRIPTION
The Old Library is an important landmark building and has inherent value in its current use as an office premises where even some three years ago had been let at £12,500 per annum. It has an ultra-convenient location right in the heart of Historic Stourport in a most attractive Conservation Area, next to the Memorial Gardens, providing for a very pleasant and fastidiously maintained 'borrowed' landscaped which to overlook! In addition The Old Library also has residential development potential with approval for change of use under a WFDC decision Notice dated 4 November, 2014 relating to application number 14/3059/PNRES. A scheme designed by local architectural practice, Michael G. Baynton & Associates of Kidderminster under drawing number 2820-3, dated December, 2014 records the three properties with the following approximate gross internal floor areas and albeit these properties will not have gardens they will, nevertheless, be rare and unique freeholds with good parking which will appeal, strongly, to those seeking good quality town centre retirement homes in a very nice location or equally they would also suit the first time buyer/investor market:-Unit 1 - 60.8 square metres / 654 square feet Unit 2 - 43.1 square metres / 463 square feet Unit 3 - 57.3 square metres / 616 square feet The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA) provides that every 'normal' planning permission granted shall be subject to the condition that the development to which it relates must be begun within three years. However, this provision does not apply to any permission granted by a permitted development order and this is the case here. The office-to-residential permitted development right (PD right) was introduced in April 2013 and in the new consolidated and amended GDPO the relevant class is Class O. This states that \"development consisting of a change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage to a use falling within Class C3 (dwelling houses) of the Schedule to the Use Classes Order from a use falling within Class B1(a) (offices) of that Schedule \", shall be permitted development; consequently such a change of use will not require a full planning application. Albeit this is subject to a time constraint which will now be covered in as much depth as these brief sale particulars will allow.In a very short summary the permitted development rights for the change of use to convert The Old Library from an office to 3 dwellings comes to an end on 30 May, 2016 and by that very same time - following a strict interpretation - the development needs to be completed and, furthermore also possibly be occupied/in use. Alternatively enforcement action could be taken, or - as is more likely in the real world - it may be necessary to make a fresh planning application !Given that we are Estate Agents and not Chartered Planners then any comments in respect of planning etc are made only in the spirit of trying to be helpful and informative. Therefore, we offer no warranty, or guarantee whatsoever and prospective purchasers' should most definitely make their own independent enquires to Wyre Forest District Council directly.

AGENTS NOTE
The quoted gross internal area measurements are approximate and intended as a guide only being scaled from the architect's drawings.

SERVICES
Potential purchasers should make their own enquiries of the appropriate Statutory Under-takers to make sure of the availability of services and the allocated costs for obtaining the same.

AMENDMENT TO DETAILS 16 OCTOBER, 2015 - cut and pasted from www.planningportal.gov.uk
PURCHASERS MUST MAKE THEIR OWN ENQUIRIES - Contact Paul Round, principal Development Control Officer at Wyre Forest District Council on 01562 732516 or by e.mail: paul.round@wyreforestdc.gov.uk\"Office-to-residential PD to be made permanent by Planning Portal Content Team on October 15, 2015. Planning and housing minister Brandon Lewis has announced that the temporary office-to-residential permitted development (PD) right, that was due to lapse at the end of May 2016, will be madepermanent. The minister said that, in addition, the new permanent right would allow office buildings to be pulled down and replaced with new residential buildings.He also confirmed that those who already have permission to convert offices to homes under thetemporary PD right will have three years in which to complete the change of use.\"