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Search the Public Notice PortalPLANS to convert a former hairdresser's shop in Northwich town centre into a joinery school have been given the go-ahead.
Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) granted permission on Wednesday, July 22, for Sutton's hairdresser, 134 Witton Street, to be converted into a carpentry and joinery training workshop.
According to the applicant, Olabuild Ltd, the school will be operated by Maker Works CIC to deliver 'non-residential short courses in carpentry and practical making skills for adults and older learners'.
The approved use is for education and training only and will not include manufacturing or retail trading to the general public.
Planning documents state: "The ground floor will be used as a small-scale woodworking and joinery training workshop.
"Activities will be educational rather than industrial manufacturing, with supervised use of bench tools, handheld power tools, and small stationary woodworking machines such as table and mitre saws, planes, and thicknessers.
"The workshop will operate only during normal daytime hours, with small class sizes, and all machinery will be used under tutor supervision.
"Appropriate dust extraction, ventilation, and noise management measures will be in place.
"No heavy industrial production or large-scale commercial processing is proposed."
The scheme involves internal alterations only, including the creation of workshop bays, a small teaching and briefing area, storage, and welfare facilities including toilets and a wash area.
No external extensions are proposed and there will be no material changes to the existing shopfront or elevations, other than any future separate application for signage if required.
Planning documents add: "The upper floor will remain in its existing residential use, and is not part of this change of use application."
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