Scheme to Improve Pembrokeshire Seaside Village Home and Surf Shop Given Green Light

A scheme to improve a Pembrokeshire seaside village home and surf shop, while also removing an unlawful part that was subject to an enforcement notice, has been given the go-ahead.
In an application to Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Bruce Sanderson of New Surf, through agent A D Architectural Design Consultants LTD sought permission for internal and external alterations to dwelling and surf shop, at New Surf, Newgale, including the removal of an un-lawful use of part of the ground floor as a shop.
The proposals were supported by Nolton and Roch Community Council.
An officer report recommending approval said: “The proposal returns the dwelling building to full residential use only. The application site is in a particularly sensitive location and appropriate mitigation has been sought and conditions imposed to preserve protected sites and species.”
It added: “The property known as Newsurf is a two-bedroom dormer bungalow with adjoining surf shop opposite the shingle bank of Newgale beach. The surf shop is positioned southeast of the bungalow and comprises a pair of pitched roof store buildings with linking flat roof section to the dwelling. Prior to being a surf shop, the application site was a filling station.
“The southern ground floor area of the dormer bungalow has been in retail use without planning authorisation and the remaining ground floor as residential use. Plans show two bedrooms and a storage area on the first floor of the dwelling.”
It detailed the proposals addressed the unauthorised aspects of development relating to a 2022 national park enforcement notice.
It concluded: “The proposed scheme is considered acceptable in how it responds to landscape setting, visual, aesthetic, historical, cultural and ecological aspects and also the physical characteristics of the site.
“The proposal preserves and enhances the character of the dwelling and by doing so will not create an unacceptably detrimental impact on the special qualities of the National Park. It is not considered that the development will cause an unacceptable impact upon privacy or amenity of neighbouring properties.”
The application was conditionally approved.
The Newsurf site also features in plans by a Vodafone phone company subsidiary to bring fibreoptic cables across the sea from Ireland to Pembrokeshire; the onshore part of a project to bring a fibreoptic cable onshore from Kilmore Quay, Wexford, Ireland to a site at Newsurf shop car park, Sands Café Car Park and the Duke of Edinburgh Inn, Newgale.
No decision has yet been made on that application. ‌​‌​‌​​​‍‌​‌​​‌‌‌‍‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌​‌‌‌‌​​

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