Appeal over plans to turn former Shrewsbury public toilets into a home with a solarium is dismissed
An appeal over a condition imposed by council officers over the conversion of a former toilet block in Shrewsbury town centre has been thrown out by the Government planning inspectorate.
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A planning application to create the one-bedroom property on the site of the disused St Julian's Friars toilets in Shrewsbury was submitted to Shropshire Council last year.
The applicant was proposing the existing toilet block on the ground floor would be eventually turned into a garage, with living accommodation built in a first-floor extension and an amenity area provided in the form of a solarium and roof terrace on the second.
The plans were eventually given the go-ahead by Shropshire Council but under the condition that the ground floor not be used - nor at any time be converted into - garaging for vehicles.
It was deemed by the planning officer that the condition was required "in the interests of highway safety".
