Residential redevelopment of former swimming baths approved

Planning permission has been granted for the redevelopment of the site of a former Sheffield swimming pool into an apartment building.Coda Planning, on behalf of a private applicant, submitted a full planning application with Sheffield City Council last July for the redevelopment of Chapeltown Swimming Baths on Burncross Road.The leisure centre buildings that previously occupied the site have been demolished. The application proposed the construction of a new building of between two and four storeys, providing 40 one- and two-bedroom apartments.Car parking and outdoor amenity space would also be created.Planning permission has been granted for the development by the council under delegated powers.The Chapeltown Swimming Baths building was put up for sale in 2015, and closed in 2016, after it was deemed surplus to requirement due to the construction of a new facility in nearby High Green.