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Search the Public Notice PortalAn unusual scheme to build a terrace of single-bedroom houses in a Herefordshire village has been abandoned.
Local developer Stuart Perkins applied a year ago to build the four two-storey properties in Moreton-on-Lugg by the A49 north of Hereford, off the main village road behind The Beeches, a recently restored detached house.
The ground floor of each was to consist of an open-plan living room and kitchen, with a bedroom and bathroom upstairs.
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Each was to have a strip of garden to the rear, accessed through French windows and ending in a small communal wooded area, and a parking space to the front and side.
A statement with the bid explained the applicants already have permission for two three-bed semi’s at the spot – but “have used the intervening period to reflect on the scheme in the context of increase build costs, changes in market demand, and the government’s intent to boost the supply of new homes”.
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The amended proposal would “increase the supply of housing and an inherently more affordable form of housing, resulting in better utilisation of previously developed land within a sustainable settlement”, it argued.
But Herefordshire Council’s ecology officer said that even though the application “proposed upgrade of an existing foul water system at a separate location to generate nutrient neutrality… calculations indicate that as proposed, nutrient neutrality will not be achieved”.
They earlier objected that the revised scheme would increase “outfall” into the protected river Lugg nearby.
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This month the council confirmed the revised application has been formally withdrawn.
“It was due to the phosphates issue, and a few other reasons,” Mr Perkins said.
“I think with our demographics there is demand for properties like these, from young people, single elderly people, divorced people,” he explained.
“But it just didn’t work for us.”
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