A popular ‘Instagrammable’ bar in Hessle could be forced to pay more than £20,000 to reinstate the bar’s original windows, while the bar’s owner says the bill could ‘put the business in jeopardy’.
… planning permission was never issued for the change …
… removal of the bay windows and their replacement of bi-folding doors is not appropriate …
Hull Daily Mail writes:
A popular ‘Instagrammable’ bar in Hessle could be forced to pay more than £20,000 to reinstate the bar’s original windows.
The Tree House’s owners are facing a big bill after council planning officials concluded the current windows breached planning regulations.
It could fall to them to correct the situation, despite the original windows being changed to bi-folding doors four years ago by the owners of the premises, then known as The Weir Bar.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council say that planning permission was never issued for the change, so have served an enforcement notice…
They say the removal of the bay windows and their replacement of bi-folding doors is not appropriate within the Hessle Conservation Area and contravene the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
The Tree House owner… said: ‘The doors have been in for four years now. To put them back to bay windows… You’re looking at £20,000.’
