A GROUP of Bromyard people, including novelist Julia Hawkes-Moore, is seeking outline planning permission to build 14 homes in landscaped gardens on the site of the Tan Yard, Bromyard.
The site is in the town's conservation area and is surrounded by medieval Tudor and Elizabethan oak-framed buildings, including the Falcon Hotel and nearby Tower House.
Border Oak Design & Construction, the Herefordshire company which revived the techniques of Elizabethan craftsmen in building half-timbered oak-framed homes, has been asked by the local group to submit plans.
The company says the new homes would be inspired by Mercers Row, a pair of terraced cottages designed by Border Oak in Weobley, and that they would be built using the construction techniques used in Bromyard's historic buildings.
The structural frame for each home would be made from solid, green oak beams joined together by mortise and tenon joints, secured by oak pegs, it said.
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