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Search the Public Notice PortalPlans to build up to six homes beside a Herefordshire village school and historic manor house have been knocked back.
Clive Grindon of Hereford applied in June to develop an acre-and-a-half field enclosed by hedges and trees between Lea CofE Primary School and the A40 through village, east of Ross-on-Wye.
He sought Permission in Principle, a less-used, “light touch” way of gaining outline planning permission for housing schemes.
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Although “just outside” the village’s settlement boundary, the scheme would be opposite the recently built Lea End development of 15 houses, and was to share the existing road with the school.
The spot is “extremely well screened” including from the large Grade II* Castle End house nearby, the application argued.
But government agency Historic England said the proposal would do “harm to the significance of Castle End”, which dates from the 17th century and which the development site contributes to as “a buffer between the house and the expanding village”.
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Its owner Captain Martin Lowe submitted his own substantial objections, arguing the “work and achievement” of restoring the historic property “should be recognised in protecting its very special situation”.
“Applications to develop housing here have been turned down several times previously and for very sound reasons,” he added.
And he considered this latest bid an “obvious attempt to ‘get the camel’s nose in the tent’ for a larger number [of houses] at a future date once the applicant has received outline assent”.
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Another near neighbour, John Hyndman, objected that Lea “has had over 120 new dwellings in the last five years with no infrastructure to support the current population”.
And parent Anita Tyson said she was “deeply concerned” about impact on pupils’ “safety and well-being” from the scheme, which would “overlook” the school, while the access road is “already under significant pressure”.
Planning officer Eleanor Barry concluded that the proposed site “contributes to the dispersed and rural character of this part of Lea”, and to develop it “would result in a significant impact upon the character and setting of the nearby listed building”.
There was also a lack of information to show that foul and surface water from the scheme would not harm the river Wye catchment, she concluded.
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