A PROPOSAL to build a detached bungalow on the site of a redundant building on land in Great Ayton has been submitted to North Yorkshire Council.

A planning statement has been prepared to support the conversion of a building to domestic house on a field off Green Lane, Great Ayton.

The proposed development site is at Ayton Firs, Great Ayton, and is a building associated with Ayton Firs Manor, one of the dwellings located on the former Ayton Firs estate approximately 1km south of Great Ayton.

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Ayton Firs Manor now adjoins Ayton Firs Hall, and these operate as two separate dwellings. However, at one point they were an impressive manor house.

Approximately 180m to the north east of Ayton Firs Manor is a single storey detached building measuring around 70sqm in size which is a redundant barn/workshop that was formally used for the storage of equipment associated with the upkeep of the land in the ownership of Ayton Firs Manor.

The building is located off Green Lane within a woodland setting with a large pond to the north.

It would be a one-bed, single storey bungalow. The dwelling would be for the applicant to allow him to live closer to his family.

The physical changes to the building are limited.

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A planning statement reads: "The three existing openings at the front would be used for windows with additional smaller windows added to the side and rear elevations. We do not believe these will significantly change the appearance of the building.

"No extensions are proposed that will alter the size and scale of the building or make it any more visible and therefore the impact on the locality will be minimal.

"It is proposed to change the existing metal cladding to British Larch cladding to soften the building and integrate it further in to the woodland setting."

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The application is supported by a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal and Great Crested Newt Survey. The risk is very low in terms of the impacts on these protected species.

The building is served by Green Lane. Parking and turning provision is available alongside the building.

The document adds that any increase in the number of cars using this access over and above the existing situation would be negligible and to that extent there could be no effect on highway safety.