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Plans for a new car park with electric chargers and a bike store at Morel Farm, which is close to reopening as holiday lets, have been approved.
The St. Lawrence farmstead, which goes back to the 17th century and is owned by the National Trust, which successfully bid for £2.16m of Fiscal Stimulus money, to create three units of self-catered accommodation, including the four-bedroom main house.
The Trust submitted a separate application to create a new parking area next to the existing entrance off Rue Rouge Cul, to the north of the existing walled garden.
The surface will not be paved but rather be matting which allows grass to grow through it. There will also be low-level bollard lighting and granite cobbled threshold at the gated entrance.
There were four public comments, all voicing degrees of concern, including a claim that the parking area is too big for the number of residents expected to stay at the farm.
Pictured: The side of the bake house, which will become a one-bedroomed holiday apartment.
In approving the ‘minor’ application, Planning said: “On balance, the department is satisfied that the proposed development will result in a net improvement to the character and setting of the listed building group, while making for a more pleasant environment in which to stay.
“The detail of the parking area, the entrance threshold, and the other incidental structures, is all considered to be acceptable.”
This week, the National Trust was criticised by the Charity Commissioner for selling another of its properties, La Ronce in St. Ouen, privately and not on the open market.
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