Cwmbran<\/a> as a private one-to-one personal training studio.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n\n Torfaen Borough\u00a0Council planner Caroline Pulley said the\u00a0application\u00a0could be approved with conditions\u00a0tying its use to the owner\/occupier of the house, which is Mrs Quinn,\u00a0with only one client allowed on the premises at one time.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n A maximum of only four customers a day will be allowed to visit the gym with opening hours restricted to\u00a09am to 5.30pm Monday to Thursday with no use allowed at all on Fridays,\u00a0Saturdays\u00a0or Sundays.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n In her application Mrs Quinn said the studio would be exclusively for women and would also offer support relating to menopause, bereavement and general well-being as well as fitness.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Her application\u00a0demonstrated\u00a0her drive can accommodate up to four\u00a0cars\u00a0and one space would be dedicated for clients while there would be a minimum of 30 minutes between each\u00a0client visiting.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Pulley\u2019s report, which approved the application,\u00a0noted\u00a0the council\u2019s\u00a0highways department said the number of vehicles calling at the home was unlikely to be any more than \u201ctypical residential activity\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Highway officers did, however, question if the use would result in the loss of a parking space in the garage but Ms Pulley said\u00a0there would be adequate parking available and stated: \u201cThe loss of the garage for parking in this case, would not justify the refusal of planning permission.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The garage\u00a0will be fitted with rubber gym flooring while rubber coated weights will be used which would further minimise potential noise\u00a0and there are no external changes. No music will be played\u00a0during workout\u00a0sessions\u00a0and a portable air conditioning unit will be used rather than opening windows during warm weather.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Exercise equipment will primarily\u00a0consist\u00a0of dumbbells, a compact cable machine, and bodyweight exercises.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n As a\u00a0result\u00a0Ms Pulley said any noise disturbance would\u00a0most likely result\u00a0from conversations between Mrs Quinn and her clients\u00a0and them leaving or arriving.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n She\u00a0stated: \u201cThe scale of the proposed use, which is limited to the size of a single garage, the impact from comings and goings and vehicular movements would not be so severe to cause an unacceptable impact on neighbouring amenity.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n A register of appointments will also need to be kept at the\u00a0premises and\u00a0be made available for inspection by the planning department to ensure compliance with the conditions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Quinn\u00a0had previously asked\u00a0a council to issue her a certificate to confirm use of the garage as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}