Planners admitted it would be good to “bring life back into” the former Masons Arms in Abbeygreen, but expressed concern over car parking and other issues.
A bid to convert an empty Lesmahagow hotel into houses and flats has been turned down.
Planners admitted it would be good to “bring life back into” the former Masons Arms in Abbeygreen, but expressed concern over car parking and other issues.
The two-storey town centre hotel and pub closed during the Covid 19 pandemic and hasn’t re-opened.
Glendevon Group lodged conversion plans with South Lanarkshire Council. The idea was to create two three-bedroom terraced houses and two flats.
A report by the authority’s planning department stated: “The principle of conversion to residential use is acceptable.
“The building has been vacant for some time without any apparent interest in reopening it as a pub or hotel.
“Bringing the building back into productive use would generally be beneficial in terms of securing its future and bringing life back into it.”
However, the report said there were “significant concerns about certain details of the proposal”.
The flats would have “little or no natural light” and views would be “oppressive”.
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There were also concerns over access arrangements and roads officials had objected because of the lack of car parking spaces.
The report concluded: “The proposal does not comply fully with the relevant policies of the adopted development plan and consent must, therefore, be refused.”
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