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Aug12
517 London Road planning permission finally applied for
Categories: Dencora House, Ipswich, YMCA Training; Feedback: 2 Comments
Keywords: 517 London Road, d1, Dencora House, detention centre, New Deal, planning consent, planning permission, without planning permission, YMCA Training
YMCA Training had been using 517 London Road since April 2003. Ipswich Unemployed Action has reported that over 6 years later they have submitted a retrospective planning application to gain D1 consent.
This came long after a year when they had enforcement action taken against them for not having D1 consent for Dencora House. They are also applying for permanent consent after receiving a year trial of D1 consent lasting a year had expired.
Use of Building for D1 purposes, 517 London Road, Ipswich
1. This statement relates to a retrospective planning application for the change of use of a former business premises involving elements of warehousing, manufacturing and office use, at 517 London Road. The site forms part of a small cluster of employment and commercial uses. To the east of the site are extensive residential areas.
2. Planning permission is sought for the use of the premises to a non-residential training centre (Use Class D1) operated by YMCA Training, a major training provided in the town, providing variety of training programmes for the state sector, public sector and private companies. The use has been operating from the site since April 2003.
Documents to download from New Deal Scandal for inspection:
- Application Form for YMCA Training 517 London Road (D1 consent)
- Statement for YMCA Training 517 London Road (D1 consent)
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Jul27
New Deal: New Deal providers are exempt from local planning laws
Categories: Dencora House, New Deal, YMCA Training, dwp, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: d1, Lambourne House, New Deal, new deal scandal, planning permission, without planning permission, YMCA Training
Call it another scandal if you wish, it seems that New Deal providers are exempt from planning legislation.
Banbury based YMCA Training, who have recently viewed this site today (leave a comment and say hello) manages to deliver New Deal training courses without first acquiring the required D1 planning consent.
- YMCA Training Ipswich Wolsey House
- YMCA Training Ipswich 517 London Road
- YMCA Training Ipswich Dencora House
- YMCA Training Southend Baryta House
- YMCA Training Romford Lambourne House
If you know of any others let me know.
Update: Added “Lambourne House” – Havering has responded to me stating they don’t have D1 consent and they should apply for retrospective planning permission costing around £335 for an application if they still use the building.
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Jun3
YMCA Training traded without planning permission over 6 months
Categories: Dencora House, Ipswich, New Deal, YMCA Training; Feedback: 2 Comments
Keywords: Dencora House, dwp, IBC, Ipswich Borough Council, jobcentre plus, New Deal, training centres, without planning permission, YMCA, YMCA Training
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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