A housing provider plans to build three houses in place of a row of garages in Hereford.

Connexus has applied for outline planning permission for the three on a quarter-acre site at Usk Close south of Belmont Road, alongside the Great Western Way.

Its application says the garages, which it appears to own, are currently “underused and misused”.

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The two three-bedroom semi-detached and one two-bedroom detached houses would be for market sale rather than rental, it adds.

A cycleway runs across the garage forecourt at Usk Close to the Great Western Way to the south of the triangular site, while a footpath leads to Stanberrow Road.

Herefordshire Council transferred its housing stock to Connexus in 2001, when it was known as Herefordshire Housing Ltd.

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In the previous financial year to the end of March, it completed 211 new homes across Herefordshire and Shropshire including in Hereford’s Bath Street, in Orleton and Moreton on Lugg, with a further 227 still in progress.

These came at a total cost of £24.9 million, according to its recently published annual report.

Comments on its application, numbered 233452, can be made until December 20.