Applicant Planning Justification
Re Planning Permission, Change of Use 119-120-121 St Paul's Apartments
Further information.
The apartment known as 119-120-121 consists of three (singles) units for the purpose of calculating the service charge. 119 would become a studio apartment, and 120-121 would become a one bedroom apartment.
Number 119 already has it’s own entrance leading out into the main corridor. It has it’s own water supply and bathroom already plumbed. It has it’s own electricity supply. Abbey Properties (St Paul’s property services) the management company have no objection to the change of use. Please see attached letter.
(This was written last year when I was first thinking of it. I was then made redundant and it had to be put on hold for some time. I am now in a position to proceed again.)
122 St Paul’s Apts to the right of me, is a studio apartment. This belongs to a gentleman who lives in Yorkshire and uses it as a holiday home. It is unoccupied for 10-11 months of the year.
On the floor where 119,120 and 121 is situated there are 14 apartments each with their own entrance door. Altogether in St Paul’s Square there are 35 apartments.
There is ample car parking in the Square below – 65 spaces which residents are allowed to park in. Only about 15 residents have vehicles and these are usually parked overnight and are moved when the residents go to work. A few of the residents are elderly and do not have vehicles. It is extremely convenient for town as use of a car is not essential unless working.
As a two bedroom apartment, it is currently registered for 3 -4 people. The studio apartment (119) would be registered for 1 person, and the one bedroom apartment (120-121) for 2 people. There would be no increase in persons using the premises for residential purposes.
If it remained as a two bedroom apartment I could use it as a flat share and have 3 people staying there without planning permission. There would be the use of the doorway entrance into 119 for privacy. The only alterations needed are internal and I am the only person affected as it would reduce my living space.
When I have had homestay for TT week, guests have used the entrance to 119 to come in and go out as it leads to a large ensuite room which would become the studio apartment.
There is no outside work to be carried out and it will not in any way alter the appearance of the corridors or outside of St Paul’s Apartments.
The rest of the block which was previously a hotel and further apartments have been taken over by Charterhouse as offices. They have their own private parking spaces to the back and outside of the square. Their employees are not allowed to park in the square but park on the promenade.
By changing the use of 119-120-121 to a studio apartment, and a one bedroom apartment it would provide reasonable priced accommodation for a single person.
I submit a first floor plan showing the lay out of the apartments in St Paul’s Square.
Karen Garrett (Miss) Karen Garrett
