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Search the Public Notice PortalPlans for a large new house in a Herefordshire market town have finally been approved, four and a half years after first being put forward.
Warrick Ellis of Birmingham applied in April 2022 to build a three-storey, four-bedroom house in Old Road, Bromyard next to Kempson Players park.
A three-storey scheme had previously been approved for the sloping site nearly two decades ago, establishing the principle of scale and road access.
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But this “offered an out-of-date design”, according to a statement with the newer bid, which would provide “a visual improvement”.
It was to have full-length windows on the three floors to the front, with the upper floors having glass-fronted balconies, while the two storeys to the rear would give onto a paved patio.
The application then foundered on the issue of water pollution, which has held back development in the county’s extensive river Lugg catchment for many years.
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Now a deal has been struck between the developer and the council, under which the former will pay for “phosphate credits” to make up for outflows from the new house.
Given its relatively small scale, this will require just 0.13 of a phosphate credit, amounting to £1,820 – which will support a new water-improving wetland near Tarrington waste water treatment works.
Locals will now hope that this scheme does not meet the same fate as has befallen the four three-storey homes across Old Road, which though largely completed some years ago, still remain boarded up and unoccupied despite the efforts of a string of developers to complete and market them.
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