AN APPLICATION for listed building consent for alterations to a barn adjacent to a pub has been approved by the borough council's planning committee.

The work at The New Inn, Biggar, Walney, is to include external alterations to the building, which is currently used for domestic storage and as a garage.

In a report produced ahead of a meeting of the council's planning committee, case officer Barry Jesson said: "Previous applications consisted of sub-division for additional dwellings, for which planning consent was required and refused, but such sub-division has now been omitted.

"Whereas previously the external works and alterations were considered to be detrimental to the historic significance of the building, the latest design reverses this by providing a simpler scheme more befitting of the historic use and previous form of the building."