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Stately home legal row resolved
4:21pm Tuesday 13th May 2008
Comments (9)PARTS of historic Heywood House will be turned into residential units after a legal wrangle was resolved.
Developers want to convert the former National Trust headquarters, a Jacobean style Grade II listed building near Westbury, from commercial to residential use.
Councillors at West Wiltshire District Council backed the application in September 2007 but a condition of the planning permission threatened to put the development in jeopardy.
The applicants refused to sign up to a "clawback" arrangement, requiring them to make a financial contribution towards affordable homes.
They insisted the clause could put the whole project in doubt, as profit margins are very small to begin with.
Members of the planning committee decided to modify the planning permission to exclude this clawback arrangement at a meeting on Thursday night.
The project will see the main house converted into seven units, the butcher's shop and gardener's cottage turned into single dwellings, the coach houses house five terraced units and the archive store turned into two cottages.
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sally beenwell, westbury says...
1:50pm Wed 14 May 08
HM QUEEN SHEENA, wilts says...
2:30pm Wed 14 May 08
hail queen sara hawker
i would allow another suggestion sally
Sarah Jane Newbury, Sunny Trowbridge says...
5:55pm Wed 14 May 08
I can just see Heather trundling up The Mall on her golden horseback.
old jarge, beanacre says...
6:37am Thu 15 May 08
Course I believes that, property developers ain't in it for the money, they just love working on old buildings fer t' fun of it !
sally beenwell, westbury says...
1:18pm Thu 15 May 08
HM QUEEN SHEENA wrote:Well Perhaps A nice little Cupid above his throne and a golden statue of a fairy either side. I think Queen Heather Brolly boy Brussell would look as pretty as a picture just sat there. I,ll leave it to you HM Queen Sheena to put your authority about and make it happen.
we could turn it in to Hawker House and pace him on his golden throne, where he can make umbrellas, all day hail queen sara hawker i would allow another suggestion sally
HM QUEEN SHEENA, wilts says...
2:35pm Thu 15 May 08
hail queen heather hawker
HM QUEEN SHEENA, wilts says...
2:36pm Thu 15 May 08
sally beenwell, westbury says...
2:59pm Thu 15 May 08
Royal Approval is hereby given That hence forth Queen Heather Sarah Brolly Boy Brussell shall take up residance at Buck Palace and will from this day forward be known to all loyal subjects as Hawkers Hall. so named in her honour. Hawkers Hall shall be open to the Public for royal visitations Monday- Friday. Entrance fee One bag of Pigeons feed. Her Royal High-Ness has forbiden all chains of office to be displayed durin public visitations as she does not wish to be seen holding her royal brolly over VIP,s Heads. By Order HM Queen Sheena.
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DILLIGAF, Westbury says...
9:43am Wed 14 May 08
Good. Now how about we sling the present squatters out of Buck' House and turn it over to those who have paid for it?