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Baptist church launches appeal after pews plan refused
3:08pm Monday 8th February 2010
A baptist church in Bradford on Avon which was refused permission to replace its Victorian pews with chairs is appealing against the decision.
The Old Baptist Church in St Margaret’s Street has formally appealed against Wiltshire Council’s decision.
Church leaders want to replace the 27 pews, which are not original to the 1797 chapel, with removable chairs, to enable the church building to be used more by groups.
The Planning Inspectorate has given a time limit of six weeks for submissions in connection with the application.
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raymondc717, melksham says...
6:17pm Mon 8 Feb 10
old bert wrote:i went to melksham one for years, before moving in to sheltered housing, and they have chairs down stairs, and the pews as far as i know are still upstairs, i cant see a problem, and well said old bert
This is exactly what happened in Melksham Baptist Church, which looks like a identical copy of this one. And no-one complained about the change.
Triton, Calnetalk.com says...
11:18am Wed 10 Feb 10
raymondc717, melksham says...
11:24am Wed 10 Feb 10
Old Baptist Church member Phil Collier with the pews the church want to remove and replace with seats
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old bert, beanacre says...
4:36pm Mon 8 Feb 10