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A decision on plans which could see an old bingo hall site turned into residential properties will not be made for another month.
Winners Bingo is proposing to demolish its former bingo hall in London Road, Brandon, to build up to eight new homes.
We specialize in a complete line of bingo and gaming products including pulltabs, one pack cash boards, subset cash boards, giant cash boards, seal games, bingo event games, Nevada Gold ticket dispensers, Turbo electronic handsets, bingo consoles, bingo verification systems, bingo cages, raffle drums, Talex hall management and point of sale systems, bingo paper, bingo ink markers, bingo balls. A dilapidated bingo hall could be replaced with new homes under plans being put forward by the site's owners. The former Winner's Bingo Hall in Brandon closed down eight years ago and the site has.
Forest Heath District Council was due to make a decision on the application today but an extended deadline of March 7 has been agreed after concerns were raised by the conservation officer.
Among people to have objected to the plans – submitted in November last year – are residents who would like see the site brought into community use.
There is also concern over the threat it poses for vehicle access to St Peter’s Church Institute, which claims to have had a’ registered right of way’ over the site’s car park for more than 40 years.
Dennis Coburn, of the Church Institute, believes it is ‘completely the wrong place for housing’.
In his objection, he states: “Building properties here would landlock the Church Institute which is used by approximately 300 people every week in community groups.”
In its accompanying planning design and access statement, agent Barker Storey Matthews said: “The existing hall is of no significant architectural merit and is now in a poor state of repair having deteriorated since it was last used in September 2008.
“In the interim the site has not been in active use, although the unauthorised use of the car park has been ongoing and increasing.”
A dilapidated bingo hall could be replaced with new homes under plans being put forward by the site's owners.
The former Winner's Bingo Hall in Brandon closed down eight years ago and the site has since fallen into disrepair.
But the company has submitted a planning application to demolish the building on London Road and build up to eight houses in its place.
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Commercial agent Barker Storey Matthews has helped the company put together the outline application.
The Suffolk highways authority believes some improvements will be required to the site's access to London Road to make it suitable for residential development, while the district council's environment team wishes conditions to be attached to address any contamination of the site.
The application has already drawn criticism from members of the public. One objecting London Road resident called the bingo hall a 'Brandon landmark' which 'should be used', while another said the building was 'a real asset to Brandon' with 'great potential'.
A design and access statement for the application said the building is 'considered to be of no particular architectural merit'.
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It added there was 'ongoing and increasing' unauthorised use of the hall's rear car park.
Brandon Town Council's planning panel is due to discuss the application on Monday, January 9.
It is due for a decision by Forest Heath District Council by February 10.
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The documents are available to view at planning.westsuffolk.gov.uk