The owners of The Charlcombe Inn on the edge of Bath have submitted a planning application to build a block containing four more B&B guest bedrooms.
The Charlcombe Inn in Bath | Image © Google Street View / Google 2024
The application has been lodged by Heartstone Inns for the Lansdown Road pub which was formerly known as the Blathwayt Arms.
The main building contains the bar, restaurant, two guest bedrooms and staff accommodation.
To the north west of the pub car park lies a converted stable building and a detached bedroom block which together contain eight guest bedrooms, granted planning permission in 2019.
The pub underwent a refurbishment during lockdown and reopened as The Charlcombe Inn.
Given the “great success” of the existing B&B accommodation, the company is now proposing to extend this element of the business by adding six more bedrooms.
Two would be created by converting the garden room restaurant at the rear of the main building, for which planning permission is not required.
A further four double ensuite guest rooms are proposed in a new block that would be built next to the southern boundary of the site.
The building would be 22 metres by five metres and also contain a laundry store/plant room. Each bedroom would have a landscaped seating area within the paved courtyard.
No layout changes are proposed to the car park but there would be cycle storage for guests in an existing storage building.
The application says the pub is well used by people attending the racecourse: “The existing rooms at the pub have extremely high occupancy rates and many potential guests are turned away when the rooms are all booked.
“The applicants are entirely confident that the proposed additional rooms would have similarly high occupancy rates, and that the development would assist in meeting the needs of those visitors wishing to stay in a peripheral location in Bath, albeit with excellent access to the city centre and the surrounding rural environment.”
The planning reference is 24/03322/FUL. The deadline for comments is 23rd October.
