Apartments to be built on former cattle market site
The site has been boarded up, as this picture from June 2023 showed
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A complex which will include 41 retirement apartments on land formerly used by a town's cattle market has been given planning permission.
Churchill Retirement Living Ltd took its plan for land to the east of Lidl in Christy’s Lane in Shaftesbury to the Planning Inspectorate after Dorset Council did not determine it within the prescribed time.
The plot is vacant but was previously used as part of the Shaftesbury Cattle Market, which was demolished in 2019.
Planning inspector Gareth Wildgoose approved the application on 12 June.
That includes the apartments, other communal facilities, access, car parking and landscaping.
The cattle market first operated on the site in 1955 but Lidl agreed to buy it in April 2018.
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