Plans to change the use of a vacant industrial unit in Twerton into a boxing gym have been approved.
Roman Boxing Gym has been given the go-ahead to convert the former M & B Brake Press Engineering Limited premises in Bellotts Road.
Council planners said the site is not within the council’s strategic or primary industrial estate sites and has been vacant for more than 18 months. Feedback provided during marketing the unit for industrial use was that it was not viable.
They said the site is in a highly sustainable location and the principle of a boxing gym is suitable.
Following concerns raised by neighbours, officers asked for a noise impact assessment.
Environmental protection officers concluded that the report sufficiently predicts the impact of change in noise level arising from the gym, with any music being background only so will not be an issue.
There will be no external changes to the premises and no changes to the access.
The club, which had been based at Twerton Park Football Stadium, says on its website that it is “temporarily closed while we complete our move to our new location, and there are no training classes until further notice”.
