News: Hotel and spa plans in for picturesque Rotherham village
A planning application has been submitted to convert a collection of agricultural buildings in a picturesque village in Rotherham into a destination hotel and spa complete with restaurant, venue space and holiday cottages.
Having drawn up a masterplan for Wentworth and surrounding farm land (around 15,000 acres,), the Fitzwilliam Wentworth Estate, has submitted its first major set of proposals which are for the site at the entrance to Wentworth Woodhouse and next to Wentworth Garden Centre, known as Home Farm.
Rothbiz revealed last year that the landowner was working up proposals showing how the Grade-II listed buildings in the green belt could be repurposed along with the demolition of modern agricultural structures and old college buildings, providing guest accommodation, hotel and spa facilities and parking in a wooded area.
The plans, drawn up by consultants at Rural Solutions, state: "The proposal will restore and enhance the historic buildings within Home Farm and will provide a long-term viable use for these assets, ensuring they have a sustainable future.
"It will enhance the experience of visiting Wentworth Woodhouse delivering tourism benefits.
"It will also deliver significant landscape and conservation enhancements to the immediate environs as well as direct and indirect employment opportunities associated with the construction and operational phases of the project."
The Threshing Barn and adjacent buildings have fallen into disrepair and are currently vacant. Converting the Grade II listed Threshing Barn will create the main entrance to Home Farm Hotel and comprise a generous light-filled double height reception with exposed brick walls, surrounded by hotel rooms and spa treatment rooms.
Cottages and historic agricultural buildings such as the farmhouse, steading stalls, potting sheds and cart sheds, would also be converted to provide accomodation.
The proposed restaurant, bar and guest lounge would be accommodated within the existing Gun Park building with designers going for "understated luxury."
Applicants say that the Powerhouse, which once provided the electricity power supply for Wentworth Woodhouse, lends itself to conversion to a large, flexible events and venue space. The historically significant Grade II listed building features a tall, tapered stone chimney,
With the barns demolished, a new build purpose built spa is proposed including pool, sauna, steam room and associated facilities.
Whilst access would remain off the B6090 Cortworth Lane, a large area of car parking (over 400 spaces) could be contained in a nearby wooded area, called Granny Clarke's Wood.
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Having sought planning advice already from Rotherham Council, applicants will need to show how the benefits outweighs the impact of what would be "innapropriate development" in the greenbelt. It is also classed as a town centre use in an out of town location.
The proposed car parking has seen the council's ecologist raise issue as it involes the felling of a number of trees to clear space in the middle of Granny Clarke's Wood north of the application site. Applicants say that the car park would also be used by visitors to Wentworth Woodhouse and the areas of redundant college buildings will be demolished and replaced by new planting.
The plans conclude; "Aspects of the proposal represent sustainable appropriate development in the Green Belt and for those elements of the development that are classed as inappropriate development it has been demonstrated that the impacts of this are clearly outweighed by other considerations.
"Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that there is tourism and economic policy support for the proposal arising from the contribution that development would make to tourism, leisure and the visitor economy.
"There is minor policy conflict resulting from the out-of-town location, however due to the site-specific nature of the development (that could not be located elsewhere) and the substantial conservation, heritage and economic benefits the proposal will deliver, this minor conflict is considered to be outweighed. Therefore, the principle of the development is acceptable."
Images: Rural Solutions
Having drawn up a masterplan for Wentworth and surrounding farm land (around 15,000 acres,), the Fitzwilliam Wentworth Estate, has submitted its first major set of proposals which are for the site at the entrance to Wentworth Woodhouse and next to Wentworth Garden Centre, known as Home Farm.
Rothbiz revealed last year that the landowner was working up proposals showing how the Grade-II listed buildings in the green belt could be repurposed along with the demolition of modern agricultural structures and old college buildings, providing guest accommodation, hotel and spa facilities and parking in a wooded area.
The plans, drawn up by consultants at Rural Solutions, state: "The proposal will restore and enhance the historic buildings within Home Farm and will provide a long-term viable use for these assets, ensuring they have a sustainable future.
"It will enhance the experience of visiting Wentworth Woodhouse delivering tourism benefits.
"It will also deliver significant landscape and conservation enhancements to the immediate environs as well as direct and indirect employment opportunities associated with the construction and operational phases of the project."
Cottages and historic agricultural buildings such as the farmhouse, steading stalls, potting sheds and cart sheds, would also be converted to provide accomodation.
The proposed restaurant, bar and guest lounge would be accommodated within the existing Gun Park building with designers going for "understated luxury."
Applicants say that the Powerhouse, which once provided the electricity power supply for Wentworth Woodhouse, lends itself to conversion to a large, flexible events and venue space. The historically significant Grade II listed building features a tall, tapered stone chimney,
With the barns demolished, a new build purpose built spa is proposed including pool, sauna, steam room and associated facilities.
Whilst access would remain off the B6090 Cortworth Lane, a large area of car parking (over 400 spaces) could be contained in a nearby wooded area, called Granny Clarke's Wood.
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Having sought planning advice already from Rotherham Council, applicants will need to show how the benefits outweighs the impact of what would be "innapropriate development" in the greenbelt. It is also classed as a town centre use in an out of town location.
The proposed car parking has seen the council's ecologist raise issue as it involes the felling of a number of trees to clear space in the middle of Granny Clarke's Wood north of the application site. Applicants say that the car park would also be used by visitors to Wentworth Woodhouse and the areas of redundant college buildings will be demolished and replaced by new planting.
"Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that there is tourism and economic policy support for the proposal arising from the contribution that development would make to tourism, leisure and the visitor economy.
"There is minor policy conflict resulting from the out-of-town location, however due to the site-specific nature of the development (that could not be located elsewhere) and the substantial conservation, heritage and economic benefits the proposal will deliver, this minor conflict is considered to be outweighed. Therefore, the principle of the development is acceptable."
Images: Rural Solutions
18 comments:
Why do they have to use abandoned prime farm buildings for this project? Surely there is enough land in Canklow or Eastwood.
Yes, a spa and hotel would do well in Canklow.
Wentworth village would become very very busy.
Canklow is a local suburb for local people. We don't want a spa attracting outsiders with their 4 x 4s and designer children.
Bring back the Canklow Hotel
And Canklow Ex Servicemen's Club.
Spent many happy hours as a child in Canklow Woods.
Or Boston Woods as they have been called
The Glassworks in Barnsley is much better than anything Rotherham has to offer.
We used to go to Canklow for our holidays when I was a youngster.
I was a school chum of Canklow lad Seamus Mcdonagh.
It's a pity that tripe is all you have to offer
How the other half lives! We had to make do with Skeggy.
Spent many happy hours in Skegness - trying to spot the sea.
Skeggy people called the resort the poor man's Canklow.
Thank you for bumping my post.
I am beginning to suspect that some of these Canklow posts are tongue in cheek.
No shot, Sherlock!
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