FULL planning permission is now in place for three one-bedroom flats beside a car sales garage.
An existing garage at the Magor Motor Company site is to be demolished and an existing three-bedroom home converted to create the three one-bedroom flats.
Permission was granted by Monmouthshire council’s delegated planning panel in January subject to a legal condition requiring a contribution towards affordable housing.
Applicant Ben Mohamed has now signed the Section 106 legal agreement with the council which requires him to make a payment, based on a rate of £80 per floor space, towards off site affordable housing.
As the deal has been signed and agreed the council has issued the full planning permission.
Planning permission had been in place for car sales at the site, on the B4245 Main Road in Magor, as well as permission for a car wash and valeting service.
The new permission allows the demolition of an attached private garage and replacement with a new two-storey extension, to provide a one-bedroom flat, while the internal layout of the existing, home Reliance House, Newport Road will be modified to provide two more one-bedroom flats.
Monmouthshire council planning officer Kate Bingham acknowledged concerns from neighbours over parking but said the application has proposed three parking spaces, one for each flat, which will result in the loss of two spaces previously allocated for cars for sale meaning parking spaces for staff and visitors will remain as they are.
She said there were no grounds to refuse planning permission subject to the legal agreement being in place.
