Museum's boathouse plan approved after revisions

TORRIDGE planners have given the green light to a new boathouse building at the North Devon Maritime Museum in Appledore after refusing it last year.

- by ALISON STEPHENSON

The building will house a refurbished fully masted fishing boat called a Clovelly picarooner, which is currently in a shipping container in the museum car park in Odun Road.

It will also have archive rooms, a servery and an accessible lavatory.

The applicants said the current archive storage rooms on the third floor of the museum suffered from damp and modern, purpose-built facilities were needed where more exhibits could be displayed and stored in a controlled environment.

Museum trustees plan to demolish the existing interpretation centre and other buildings and take in some of the car park for the new work and exhibition space.