Second plan for conservation area apartments wins approval

McCarthy and Stone were given planning permission to remove a 1930s office block from the old Becketts Hospital site, off Churchfields, in the Autumn, though council officers were given responsibility to try to get a better balance between car parking and garden space in the grounds.

As a result the company came up with new plans, which involved creating several more apartments, by creating a lower ground floor in a new building and changes to the conversion of an Edwardian building which will remain.

They were so extensive the new plans had to go before Barnsley Council’s planning board for a second time, where the fresh plans were approved.

The new apartment block will be lower than the offices it will replace and it will also occupy a smaller ‘footprint’ on the site, with increased gardens but no loss of car parking space.