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Search the Public Notice PortalA LANDMARK historic hall ravaged by fire ten years ago is set for a new lease of life after conversion plans cleared a major hurdle.
Halton Council planning chiefs had previously backed an application to restore Grade II*-listed Daresbury Hall, which was devastated in a blaze in 2016 and had been derelict ever since.
But work could not commence until final details had been signed off, including a section 106 agreement – a legal deal signed by councils and developers designed to mitigate the impact of a project on the surrounding area.
With the green light now having been given, the hall itself will become home to eight apartments, with six constructed in the nearby stables and outbuildings, while 31 properties will be built on the wider grounds.
The 16-acre site is located in protected green belt, an area designed to guard against over development.
And conservation charity The Georgian Group had objected, stating that while it welcomed moves to repair and renovate the site, it had ‘significant concerns’ over the extent of the planned demolition and partitioning of the house.
But planners felt the gains of refurbishing the hall outweighed the concerns raised and Halton’s Development Management Committee backed the scheme at a meeting last January, pending signing of the section 106 agreement.
With that agreement now in place, the department has this week provided final approval, a long with a long list of conditions the applicant will have to meet. These include providing more details on construction and demolition plans, along with completion of a remediation strategy, as well as further details on tree planting and pedestrian access.
Granting approval, the officer’s decision notice concluded: “The planning authority considers that all prior to commencement conditions included within the notice require resolution prior to commencement of development, since the works they relate to are so fundamental to the development permitted that it would have been otherwise necessary to recommend refusal of the schemes proposed.”
The Georgian mansion on Daresbury Lane was constructed in 1759 for George Heron, a descendent of the Brooke Family who owned the Norton Priory. In the 1960s the hall was converted and extended by Cheshire County Council to provide hospital care. It was left vacant from 2010 and in 2016 a major fire resulted in substantial structural damage, with only the brick wall interior remaining.
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