Kirn plans approved
Plans for three holiday letting units near Dunoon have been given the go-ahead by Argyll and Bute Council planning chiefs.
Greenside Garden Centre’s plans for the Tigh Beag building at 113 Marine Parade, in Kirn, have been granted planning permission after no representations were received from the public.
The building, which will be converted and altered under the plans, forms part of the larger Dunclutha Children’s Home site, which has been the subject of several other planning applications in the past.
The existing building is a semi-detached cottage which was used for several years as a residential home, children’s nursery and office.
A council planning officer said in a handling report: ‘It is proposed to convert the vacant semi-detached building Tigh Beag into three residential units for holiday letting purposes.
‘The holiday letting venture will be part of the general business of the tearoom based in the main building at 113 Marine Parade and all managed by the owner.
‘This will add to the diversity of business that is proposed for number 113 and further allow visitors to the area to enjoy surrounding gardens and uses within the larger site.
‘Each unit can have up to a maximum of four people staying and two car parking spaces per unit are proposed within a car parking and turning area to the west of the converted building.
‘The redevelopment of Tigh Beag, in close proximity to the former Dunclutha building, will provide an enhanced setting for this prominent Victorian villa within a special built environment area.
‘The modernisation of the existing building to create improved tourist accommodation together with associated landscaping and car parking proposals will help to revitalise the building and surrounding part of the site to the benefit of the wider special built environment area.’
The officer added: ‘It is considered that the proposed ancillary tourist development set within the larger Dunclutha site is acceptable in terms of uses and design and raises no amenity issues.
‘The tourist accommodation use proposed will help not only to revitalise the vacant Tigh Beag building immediately adjacent to Dunclutha Villa within a special built environment area but act as a catalyst for future development within the larger neglected site.’