It has been discovered that Dencora House in Ipswich, a training centre run and rented by YMCA Training didn’t have planning permission for over 6 months. To run a training centre you require D1 planning consent. Dencora House and it’s 10 units all had B1 Offices planning consent. When YMCA Training, one of the largest training providers with 31 years experience and over 40 locations, rented units it was unaware of the law and therefore traded without permission.
Ipswich Borough Council took enforcement action when they discovered that they were illegally trading when they only had consent for offices. The council forced them to apply for planning permission. After YMCA Training were responsible for a long list of problems including damage to cars, litter and noise disturbances – the neighbouring businesses downstairs of Dencora House and in the local area appealed against their application.
It wasn’t until July that year where they were granted full planning permission to change use from B1 offices to D1 non-residential training centre for a year trial period. It will expire July 31st 2009.
It is not known why DWP and Jobcentre Plus didn’t notice that they did not have planning permission when they did their checks to see if the training centre was up to a required standard to be used for New Deal.
Feel free to view the below posts about each attempt:
- YMCA Training’s first attempt for planning permission (appealed)
- YMCA Training’s second and successful attempt for planning permission (only granted for 1 year though)
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