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Search the Public Notice PortalA plan to build two four-storey terraces at a prominent but flood-prone Hereford spot has been given the go-ahead.
Messrs Thorne of local firm Garrock Ltd applied for full planning permission in March last year to knock down the Wye Bridge Motors garage and A neighbouring detached house in St Martin’s Street and replace them with the two blocks, each of five houses and oriented roughly north-south around a small communal garden.
Each with their own external front door and the same internal layout, the ground floors of all ten would consist solely of a garage and utility room, with “habitable accommodation set at a suitable height due to flood risk”, a statement with the application said.
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The top floors would consist solely of a master bedroom, with two more bedrooms on the floor below.
Designed “to resemble a set of terraced houses, reminiscent of the character of St Martin’s Street”, in particular the neighbouring listed St Martin’s Place, they would be screened from the adjacent Greyfriars Bridge section of the A49 through the city by mature trees.
But Hereford City Council objected that the scheme was “not in keeping with the vernacular of the street scene, in that the proposed building is disproportionate in height”.
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And Government agency Historic England agreed the scale of the units “will dominate and distract from the exceptionally well-defined historic character of the street”, which lies within the city’s main conservation area.
But Herefordshire Council’s planning officer Josh Bailey concluded that any visual harm from the scheme would be “limited in nature and extent”, and that their design “has clearly sought to preserve and enhance key elements of nearby historic fabric and setting”.
Full planning permission was granted.
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