PLANS for more than 30 new homes on the site of a pub car park in Poole have cleared their final hurdle – as developers launch a bid to add more apartments to the watering hole building.

Primetower Properties Ltd has secured planning approval from BCP Council for its reserved matters application in relation to the Goods Yard car park in Broadstone.

The applicant secured outline planning consent from the local authority's planning committee for 33 apartments on the site in Station Approach in late 2020.

Poole-based Primetower Properties subsequently submitted the application just for the landscaping on the site as the access, appearance, layout and scale of the proposed scheme had already been granted.

This reserved matters proposal was approved by BCP Council planning officer's under delegated powers earlier this month.

Bournemouth Echo: CGI of the flats, right, next to the Goods Yard pubCGI of the flats, right, next to the Goods Yard pub

The four-floor apartment block, which will be in a horseshoe shape, will feature nine one-bed, and 24 two-bed flats. It will maintain 27 parking spaces on the site, with 33 cycle spaces.

Primetower Properties previously said the scheme would “enhance” the area and have a “distinct positive impact”.

Planning permission to build 31 flats on the site, which runs alongside the former railway line, was granted by Poole council in 2007.

Meanwhile, in the past couple of months the developer has submitted a separate application to carry out a "subservient side and rear extension" of the Goods Yard pub, which would provide five additional apartments and a courtyard area.

The firm already has permission for an extension to add two apartments and the new scheme "evolved" from this approval.

A statement submitted by consultants Chapman Lily Planning said: "The layout, in part, seeks to replicate the historic alignment of built form which was removed through previous permissions of the site.

"The site layout retains the public house as being the principal building with subservient additions extending from it – this, it is contended, reflects the evolution of the building which still maintain its historic form and function."