By Lucy Morgan Audience and Content Editor
The business was threatened by a planning application for a bungalow. A planning application for a bungalow on the site of a much-loved pottery in Niton High Street is to be withdrawn, the Isle of Wight Council has confirmed. The local authority has received the withdrawal request from an agent for the proposed scheme, which means the former butchers shop looks set to remain the home of Tregear Pottery. The business had just reopened after a combination of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and illness. Objections had been lodged on the Isle of Wight Council s website and the matter had been due to be discussed by Niton and Whitwell Parish Council on June 7.
Planning permission is being sought for a three-bed bungalow on the site of a pottery in Niton High Street. A former butchers shop, the building is currently the home of Tregear Pottery, which has just reopened after a combination of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and illness. The pottery, which houses a workshop and retail outlet, has become part of Niton life in the nine years it has operated, forging links with the village primary school and offering tuition and tours. Work by potter Neil Tregear sells widely throughout Britain and further afield. Objections to the planning application have been lodged on the Isle of Wight Council s website, with those against the plans calling the business well respected and thriving and arguing that its location at the centre of the village [is in] an area that needs to retain commercial businesses.
Victory for much-loved pottery as planning application withdrawn: Here’s the story behind it
As the planning application that threatened the much-loved pottery is withdrawn,
OnTheWight has been finding out the story behind it
Tregear Pottery have been based on the High Street in Niton since 2011, taking on the lease after the departure of the Real Island Food Company.
Application withdrawn
The plans would have seen Tregear Pottery evicted from their base of the last ten years, so Catherine and Neil Tregear are celebrating today (Tuesday) after receiving a handwritten letter from the owners of the property, stating that the planning application will be withdrawn.