Riding school's bid to turn stables into holiday home is approved by planners

Plans to convert a stables building into a new “holiday home” at a South Tyneside riding school site have been given the green light.

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South Tyneside Council’s planning department has approved an application for a building at the North Lizard Riding School complex, which sits off Lizard Lane in the Whitburn and Marsden ward.

Council planning documents have previously described the site as a “riding school and residential properties with various outbuildings including stables and other barn buildings” and noted the site sits “entirely within the Green Belt”.

Plans were approved earlier this year for the conversion of two existing stables into two cottages at the site, as well as “removing existing barns [elsewhere on the site] and reinstating land.”

New plans submitted in September were linked to a separate stables building on the site, with applicants seeking permission to “convert one of the existing stables to a cottage” with “associated changes to the existing door and window arrangements, and the addition of 5no. rooflights.”