Auction house proposal for Old School House in Messingham - latest planning applications
The Old School House in Messingham is proposed to become the home of an online auction house.
The venue, in Northfield Road, had been a café restaurant of the same name for several years, having received planning permission in 2016. However, it closed at the end of last year.
Potters Auction Saleroom Ltd took over the premises in July, the application states. It has sought permission from North Lincolnshire Council for change of use to class B8, storage or distribution.
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Read on below for more about the online auction house proposal, and other recent North Lincolnshire planning applications.
Messingham online auction house
Auctions at The Old School would be held live online from inside of the building. Members of the public would not attend the building to bid, and there are no proposed changes to the building's layout.
People may attend though to view or collect items. Potters Auction Saleroom would not be the only business to be based out of The Old School House. The application states two other businesses, Messingham Storage and Messingham Packaging, would be based out of part of the building.
Potters Auction Saleroom has moved to Messingham effectively as a result of its success. It began in 2015 and later acquired the former Scunthorpe Carpets showroom in Trafford Street, Scunthorpe, to meet its space needs to house its expanding inventory. It stated in spring this was again the reason for its move to Messingham.
South Axholme Academy
A single-storey 'nurture unit' is proposed on long-disused land at an Epworth secondary school. The proposal at South Axholme Academy would see the new building include four classrooms, including a food tech and practical classroom each. There would also be a meeting, therapy and staff room each.
It would be on scrub land last in use as a vegetable garden in 1979. The site is accessed off the driveway to the next-door leisure centre, but is also attached to the rest of the school via its tennis courts. It would be an independent block used as "a teaching base to nurture young people who may need a space away from the main school environment".
Eight car park spaces, including one disabled, would accompany it, and five staff are expected to be based in the building. Solar panels and air source heat pumps would means its electricity and heating ran independent of the main school building.
Ealand Methodist Church conversion
There is again a plan to turn a former methodist church into residential use, something of a trend in northern Lincolnshire in recent years. A couple want to turn Ealand Methodist Church in New Trent Street, Ealand, into a four-bedroom home. A separate application has been made for outline permission to build a detached home on what was the location of a Sunday school.
Airedale Architects on behalf of the applicants state as congregations dwindled, it was not economically viable to run a chapel in the village. It closed in 2021, with the congregation joined to nearby Crowle. "With no solution for continuing its use as a church the building and site was subsequently purchased by our clients at auction in May 2023."