Planning Permission Granted for The Oven
Midsteeple Quarter are pleased to announce a huge step forward for the regeneration of Dumfries High Street, with planning permission and conservation area consent having now been granted for the redevelopment of The Oven (135-139 High Street). The plans will see the site developed into seven new flats which will be available at affordable rents, one of which will be an artistic residency studio/flat. The street level space will be used as an enterprise space for start up businesses and social enterprise, as well as continuing to support the community enterprise sector locally.
The facade of the existing building will be retained as an important element of the character of the Dumfries townscape. Plans for a new shop front are in the pipeline too. It is intended that work on site will start before the end of 2020.
“Midsteeple Quarter are pleased to announce a huge step forward for the regeneration of Dumfries High Street, with planning permission and conservation area consent having now been granted for the redevelopment of The Oven (135-139 High Street). The plans will see the site developed into seven new flats which will be available at affordable rents, one of which will be an artistic residency studio/flat. The street level space will be used as an enterprise space for start up businesses and social enterprise, as well as continuing to support the community enterprise sector locally.”
The Oven is the first in a group of underused buildings on Dumfries High Street which Midsteeple Quarter have identified as a site for their bold initiative to see local people developing their own High Street as a contemporary living, working, socialising, learning and enterprising hub – a new vision of Dumfries town centre based on local views and aspirations.