A plan to replace three turkey sheds on a Herefordshire farm with five new houses has been approved a year and a half after it was tabled.
Mr D Brandon's application, submitted in March last year, said the three and four-bedroom, one- and two-storey homes at Upper Brook Bridge Farm in Kingsland, near Leominster, had a “barn-like aesthetic”.
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A previous new development plan had been withdrawn after Herefordshire Council's planning officer raised concerns about its scale and layout, which the new proposal sought to address.
Kingsland Parish Council continued to reject the scheme on the grounds that it was outside the village's settlement boundary and conflicted with its neighborhood development plan.
And neighbor Patrick Vennard said it amounted to “residential overdevelopment” in an area where “there is already a lot of new development.”
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But planning officer Amber Morris placed “significant weight” on the fact that a plan to convert the sheds into housing had already been approved and that the newer project offered “advantages compared to the replacement solution, including landscaping, design and biodiversity”.
Full building permission has been granted.
The site was previously used for poultry farming for around 50 years.