Braintree: Listed building to be restaurant

From the archive, first published Wednesday 22nd May 2002.

Permission has been granted to turn a former library and courthouse in Braintree into a restaurant.

However, no development is allowed to take place until delivery access problems have been sorted out.

Plans to convert the old courthouse, in Coggeshall Road, Braintree, were given the go-ahead at a meeting of Braintree Council's area committee last night

But at the meeting councillors heard there was a single entry point for delivery vehicles meaning once they had finished they would have to reverse out onto Coggeshall Road.

Planning officer Andy Butcher told members this was the policy of Essex County Council's highways office.

Councillors agreed to defer the development of the site until the matter could be sorted out.

Property company Strulestone bought the building, which has a floor space of several thousand feet, last year and intend to turn it in to a restaurant.

The Grade II listed building was built in the 19th century as a county court. It was sold last march by estate agents Lambert Smith Hampton on behalf of previous owners Essex County Council

Published Wednesday, May 22, 2002

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