A bid to demolish a Godalming office block to make way for a later-living scheme has been launched.
BMW (UK) Trustees Ltd and Pegasus Homes Ltd want to demolish the office building at Mountain House in Station Road and build 56 later-living apartments
Pegasus is a special housebuilder with over 30 years of experience creating retirement living communities nationwide for people in their 60s.
It has a portfolio of over 1,500 retirement homes across some 40 developments around the UK.
The application for full planning arrived at Waverley Towers this week. It includes demolishing the existing office building, Mountain House, and ancillary structures and creating a temporary means of construction access off Mill Lane.
The site’s redevelopment includes a later living (sheltered housing) development, a communal lounge, meeting rooms, an ancillary office, a kitchen, a bin store, a multi-use activity space, a wellbeing suite, plant rooms, a building management store and workshop, a mobility scooter /cycle store, storage areas, electrical vehicle charging facilities, and car and cycle parking. The site is located in the western part of the central area of Godalming, within the designated Town Centre. The site is south of the four-storey ‘The Tannery’ development of apartments and is bound by Mill Lane to the south, Station Approach/ Station Road to the northeast and northwest, and the River Ock to the southeast.
The bridge link to the Tannery car park will be upgraded, and landscaping (including communal garden spaces) will be provided.
The 56 later living apartments include 31 one-bedroom dwellings and 25 two-bedroom dwellings. There will be a communal lounge for residents’ use, two guest suites, shared external amenity and garden space, a buggy store, external cycle storage facilities, 29 parking spaces (two designated accessible bays), and mobility scooter parking.
The apartment must be occupied by at least one person over 60, including, where applicable, their partner, spouse, or dependant.
More info here: Later Living Apartments Godalming
Flipping ‘eck it looks like a penitentiary block!
Yes another prison block – maybe if they can’t flog them they could convert it into cells – we seem to be a bit short on prison space – also maybe some of the inmates they are releasing early could lend a hand building it?
My understanding is that the developers maximise profit by avoiding paying any contribution to the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) – that’s what this sort of development is all about as far as I know.
Just what Godalming needs, another penitetiary.