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Search the Public Notice PortalA restriction meaning the occupants of a Yorkshire Dales house must work in the village pub should be enforced despite the home being sold at auction and the pub being closed, says a councillor.
The four-bedroom property in the car park of the George and Dragon pub in Aysgarth, in Wensleydale, sold for £263,000 last week after being advertised with a guide price of just £19,000.
The house and pub were previously sold together at auction in December, when the guide price for the entire site was £300,000.
Ahead of last week’s auction, Aysgarth and District Parish Council raised concerns that no mention was made of a Section 106 agreement in the sale details.
The agreement, issued in 1996 when the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) granted planning permission for the property, means the occupant of the property should work in the pub.
North Yorkshire councillor for the Upper Dales and YDNPA member, Yvonne Peacock, said: “The reason that this house ever got planning permission was because of the restriction that meant the occupants had to work in the pub.
“I hope the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will enforce that rule in the future. I know the national park authority is looking into this. “
Councillor John Dinsdale, chair of Aysgarth and District Parish Council, said the authority was monitoring the situation.
A spokesperson for the YDNPA said the authority liaised with the auction house and seller of the property ahead of the sale to provide information on the Section 106 agreement.
They said and staff were aware the house had now been sold.
Laura Howey, director of North Yorkshire estate agents Love Property, said £263,000 was cheap for a house in the village, but the Section 106 agreement would have discouraged bidders.
“The pub is closed now and we don’t know if or when it will reopen. Our culture’s changed and we don’t go and sit in the pub like we used to so it’s very hard for village pubs to survive.
“A compromise would be to keep the Section 106 in place, but remove the link to the pub, and let it be bought by someone who lives and works in the park, otherwise you could have an empty house as well as an empty pub.”
The parish council is in the process of registering the pub, which closed last year, as an asset of community value.
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