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Search the Public Notice PortalLong-standing plans to build three modern houses at a prominent Herefordshire spot have come to nothing.
Andrew Parkhill first applied six years ago to develop Mirrorbrook, a former plant nursery site at Stoney Cross on the junction of the main A4103 Hereford-Worcester road and the B4220 into the village of Cradley, near the Malvern Hills national landscape.
This was refused permission and an appeal against the decision dismissed.
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Meanwhile five houses were approved and built immediately to the south, with which the three would have shared road access onto the B4220.
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A subsequent application by Mr Parkhill in September 2022 was withdrawn following concerns over landscape impact and drainage, with a revised application, including a 46-page landscape statement, which sought to address these issues then made in March 2023.
The revised scheme was to be made up of three single-storey timber-clad detached houses with flat, “green” (planted) roofs, two with three bedrooms and one with four.
But this was rejected over the same issues, and also over the impact on the 17th-century, grade II listed Birch Cottage to the south.
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Mr Parkhill again appealed against this. But now planning inspector M Aqbal has ruled that the site is “unacceptable for housing”.
While they did not consider the new houses would further harm the setting of Birch Cottage, and dismissed the drainage issue, “the proposal would harm the landscape setting of Cradley and would undermine the setting of the Malvern Hills AONB”, the inspector concluded.
The appeal against the refusal of planning permission was dismissed.
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