Council urged to ban pub smoking shelter
Council urged to ban pub smoking shelter
By Echo Reporter
COUNCILLORS are being urged to take action over what is said to be a 'rudimentary' smoking shelter put up in the grounds of a historic listed Purbeck pub.
The Kings Arms in the High Street at Langton Matravers near Swanage has not had any district council approval to put up the wooden-framed plastic sheeting-roofed structure.
Now councillors on Purbeck's planning board will on Thursday be considering a report which urges the initiation of enforcement action on conservation grounds.
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The pub is on the south side of the main road running through the Purbeck village.
Councillors are to be told that the smoking shelter, which is in the south-west corner of the grounds, cannot be seen from the highway or from a nearby public footpath.
There is a 2m high stone wall running around the pub's eastern and southern boundaries.
The planning board is being recommended to approve a notice demanding the complete removal of the shelter within three months.
The pub, which is mainly in white-painted brickwork, was listed as grade two in late 1984 and is within the village's conservation area.
Councillors are being told that a complaint came in to the council in September and the pub's owner had been told that the smoking shelter had gone up in breach of planning control.
The report says: "The structure was a rudimentary shelter constructed with a wooden frame and plastic roof which it is understood had been erected in order to provide patrons with a smoking shelter following the coming into force of the Health Act 2006 and the Smokefree England regulations made thereunder."
The councillors are being told that despite informal discussions the pub's owner had not been able to come up with any solution which 'would satisfactorily address the concerns of the local planning authority in respect of the structure due to its unsympathetic appearance' in relation to the listed pub and its impact on that building.
Council officers claim that as it is now the shelter is 'incongruous' and 'detrimental to the visual amenity of the conservation area'.
They maintain that putting up such a shelter in the grounds of a pub needs planning permission.
And they argue that, while accepting the pub is used by residents and tourists, a smoking shelter could have been built in materials in sympathy with the stone boundary wall or the pub itself.
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.1857090.0.council_urged_to_ban_pub_smoking_shelter.php
By Echo Reporter
COUNCILLORS are being urged to take action over what is said to be a 'rudimentary' smoking shelter put up in the grounds of a historic listed Purbeck pub.
The Kings Arms in the High Street at Langton Matravers near Swanage has not had any district council approval to put up the wooden-framed plastic sheeting-roofed structure.
Now councillors on Purbeck's planning board will on Thursday be considering a report which urges the initiation of enforcement action on conservation grounds.
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The pub is on the south side of the main road running through the Purbeck village.
Councillors are to be told that the smoking shelter, which is in the south-west corner of the grounds, cannot be seen from the highway or from a nearby public footpath.
There is a 2m high stone wall running around the pub's eastern and southern boundaries.
The planning board is being recommended to approve a notice demanding the complete removal of the shelter within three months.
The pub, which is mainly in white-painted brickwork, was listed as grade two in late 1984 and is within the village's conservation area.
Councillors are being told that a complaint came in to the council in September and the pub's owner had been told that the smoking shelter had gone up in breach of planning control.
The report says: "The structure was a rudimentary shelter constructed with a wooden frame and plastic roof which it is understood had been erected in order to provide patrons with a smoking shelter following the coming into force of the Health Act 2006 and the Smokefree England regulations made thereunder."
The councillors are being told that despite informal discussions the pub's owner had not been able to come up with any solution which 'would satisfactorily address the concerns of the local planning authority in respect of the structure due to its unsympathetic appearance' in relation to the listed pub and its impact on that building.
Council officers claim that as it is now the shelter is 'incongruous' and 'detrimental to the visual amenity of the conservation area'.
They maintain that putting up such a shelter in the grounds of a pub needs planning permission.
And they argue that, while accepting the pub is used by residents and tourists, a smoking shelter could have been built in materials in sympathy with the stone boundary wall or the pub itself.
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.1857090.0.council_urged_to_ban_pub_smoking_shelter.php
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