The Peak Park planners are currently considering a re-application for “change of use from retail shop to domestic residential” for the old Spar Shop in Parwich.
The application and plans, which can be see on-line at the Peak Park website (application number NP/DDD/0509/0370), are for a single dwelling with the rooms upstairs unchanged and the ground floor shop area as an undivided living space.
Any comments must be sent in by Friday 12th June (either email to planning.service@peakdistrict.gov.uk or click here for more details on how to comment). If there are no comments from the public or other organisations this may be decided by the planning officers on delegated authority.
For the Authority to grant permission for change of use of a former village shop it must comply with their Local Plan, chapter 5 section 5.6:
Only where it can be shown that a shop is no longer viable or required by the local community, and that the proposed new use meets another community need, should change of use be allowed.
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