Royal Oak, East Wittering
Overview
ECE Planning secured full planning permission for client Bridge Road Developments Ltd for the conversion and extension of a former public house in East Wittering.
The former Royal Oak Public House closed in 2012. A previous application in 2018 was approved to allow retention of the public house and provide ancillary accommodation units and alterations (and also erection of a new block of 9 flats and a 3 bed bungalow). A change of use and extension application for the public house was then refused in 2020.
ECE Planning were consulted after this refusal and were able to obtain permission for a new change of use scheme for the conversion and extension of the former Royal Oak Pub into 7 residential flats and commercial space. The new proposal sought to sit within the existing urban fabric whilst simultaneously respecting the new 9 flat development that was granted consent to the east.